Karajan In Concert (2008)/ Portrait: Karajan - Impressions

Dubbel-DVD-set. DVD 1 bevat concertopnamen uit 1973, 1975 en 1978, met Herbert von Karajan als dirigent van de Berliner Philharmoniker. Op het programma staan ouvertures van Beethoven, Rossini, Wagner en Weber, werken van Debussy en Ravel en het Tweede pianoconcert van Rachmaninov (met pianist Alexis Weissenberg). De DVD bevat een documentaire over Von Karajan, gemaakt t.g.v. diens 70-ste verjaardag. this DVD brings compelling accounts of the master at work, visually as well as aurally. There is a powerful intensity to the Beethoven overtures and the opening of William Tell is beautifully done, with glorious playing from the Berliners... There is plenty of fascinating archival material to see; and within the maestro's obviously glamorous, jet-set lifestyle, he emerges as a musical communicator of warmth - and humour too. A most revealing issue. (The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music)