nice game, for better or for worse

The Brahms Concerto lives primarily by Anne-Sophie Mutter Ecstatic-nice, but a bit too flashy virtuosity held, polished game that seems to float decorative decorating with a very airy, fragrant sound through a velvety Karajan Klangteppisch. This approach focuses on a priority order on euphony with approaches of melodrama. The excitement and drama of the sentence is in my opinion not really rübergebracht (compare this with the presentation at Bernstein / Kremer). The concert seemed altogether too harmless what both have their share.
The Triple Concerto seemed altogether firmer, whereby here the interpretation is more romantic than classical created.

The phonetic differences between the digitally recorded Brahms Concerto (1981) and the still analogue recorded Beethoven's Triple Concerto (1979) is audible, but not violently; The Brahms Concerto has expected, the higher tonal clarity. The violin is relatively cautious, but overall quite clean shot with beautiful, spring-like timbre and tonal balance between the orchestra and solo instrument is ok. The orchestral sound is Karajan typical complacent: colored-soft with beautiful silky strings.
In Triple the string tutti mE have fallen into their powerful sonority to domininant in some places a bit - they threaten there then downright acoustic soloists. The piano is my other hand sound technology a little too much into the background.

Conclusion: For the Brahms Concerto 3.5 stars, for Beethoven 4 - makes benevolent 4 stars. Overall, more of a CD for fans of the violinist as for Brahms fans.