Of course, as with all discs of this collection, the price is high. But the Philharmonic sound splendor of Berlin and the sound is intact. How big in the Morning from Peer Gynt! How deep in the andante of following the time of Holberg! What despair in the sad waltz ... As usual, the strings are unique in Berlin. Each piece is lovingly crafted, polished, worked, the result is beautiful. But because of this, the very meaning of music sometimes tends to move to the background. The Swan of Tuonela is the most beautiful Adagio of Sibelius, it is a fact. Karajan conducts it as such, but by cutting its way, it almost makes sense-cons. For this swan, in the work of Sibelius which it is extracted, is a dead bird, a fatal and fatal face, sad indeed, but more worrying than desperate.
This disc is still a beautiful record. It is also a sad disc (Death of Aase, Solveig song, andante religioso Suite Holberg, sad waltz, swan), an invitation for calm. A sort of swan song of a great leader, won by the disease, which was going through a serious crisis in his career by blurring with partners forty years.
