Search - Bruckner, Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic :: Symphony 4 E-Flat: Romantic

A definite masterpiece

Sergey Sh. | 08/29/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This recording, along with the 1977 recording of Beethoven 9th, or the 1976 recording of the Mozart Requiem, is a total triupmh. It is very characteristic to Karajan the intence concentration, huge erupting sound, and the captivating combination of 5 gezillion horse-power, with 1000 miles of depth. This recording is huge. If not the very best one - definately one of the top five."

Excellent Bruckner recording

Sergey Sh. | Moscow Russia | 02/28/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Aesthetic and integrity of the recording is exciting! It's a vision from the first to last note, balanced and beautiful.
Recording quality and new digital remastering are state-of-the art too."

Better hearing than dismissing

Orteil musical | Ile Maurice | 11/09/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Karajan is too often portrayed as the man-who-draws-the-music-to-himself or an ideological aesthete and this account of Bruckner Fourth, while surely not the ultimate one, talks in favour of the Austrian Maestro. True there is power and strength, sometimes spectacularly but with some telluric outbursts reminding of other great brucknerians. But what this recording seems to bring is an unmistakable love of this music, which speaks of nature with the naivety, deepness and rawness of Sibelius or Stravinsky. Bruckner loved life and the beauty of the world. We hear only instruments and the result is intense poetry, like we can hear in Berlioz "Fantastique". With a kind of hypnotic flow. Not surprisingly, Karajan could also be masterly in Sibelius. Not very far from what Sanderling could do."