I’ve ordered a few recordings of Karajan in concert from St. Laurent Studio, from the mail order company Norpete.com which is boutique label that specializes in older recordings, issued in CD only, and based in Vermont. They are stereo radio tapes from the seventies and eighties from Concerts in Paris and the Salzburg Festival. I’ve ordered the Mahler 5&6 and Brahms Symphonies with the Berliners. In all cases the concerts were given a few weeks of recording sessions of the same repertoire, and indeed I have the relevant studio recordings.
I didn’t get to hear von K in concert, and the reviews that I have read of these recordings suggest that they have just that extra touch of excitement that live music making can provide. Karajan was such a control freak that it is hard to imagine hearing him letting himself go, so I am pretty excited by the prospect of receiving these.
I didn’t get to hear von K in concert, and the reviews that I have read of these recordings suggest that they have just that extra touch of excitement that live music making can provide. Karajan was such a control freak that it is hard to imagine hearing him letting himself go, so I am pretty excited by the prospect of receiving these.
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