A feast for Karajan friends

With these three orchestral works, recorded 1964-1966 at the Berlin Jesus-Christus-Kirche, each Karajan-worshipers whose mW there still should be a whole lot can prepare a musical festival. The colored and varied pieces instrumented takes Karajan as an opportunity to spread the splendor and glory of his Berlin Philharmonic before the astonished audience.
The "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky, in the grand instrumentation Ravel are perfect for a virtuoso, effortlessly all shades an illuminating Orchestra. As the conductor leads his musicians at the end by the magnificent "Gate of Kiev", which has a bit that turns heads. Great and impressive I have never heard of this magnificent masterpiece, and the re-submitted version here surpasses even Karajan's own digital recording from 1986 presentational considerably, although this has failed might sound a bit more brilliant.
"La Mer" by Claude Debussy has perhaps not as spectacular exhibit Summit Points, as well as this impressionistic tone painting is presented delicate and colorful. As eventually increase Karajan and his Berlin Ravel infamous "Boléro" in an absolutely quiet, not too quickly, but steadfastly held by Tempo to the flaming ecstasy that has probably no equal in the long history of reception of this piece. The conductor adheres strictly to the rule of the composer who had his work "Moderato assai" overwritten what in German means nothing other than "very moderate". Karajan does not make the mistake of many of his colleagues who have this piece inflame my tempo-wise. That is why he achieved mE maximum impact with a work at its premiere an elderly lady to have exclaimed scared: "Help, a madman!" To which Ravel replied promptly: "The understood me." Karajan's Bolero interpretation is nothing more than an elongated act musical hypnosis.
The DGG has spared neither cost nor effort for their series "The Originals". In addition to mapping the original LP cover text books contain excellent articles by renowned music critic. In this case, Peter Cossé was used. The sound quality of the "Original Image bit Processing" restored recordings is shiny and meets high standards.