Anyone else interested in obtaining this behemoth? My finger keeps hovering over the 'Buy now' button on Amazon but common sense keeps getting in the way. 
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Interested, but it would involve more duplication than even I can justify...... -
Petrushka took the plunge I believe . . .Comment
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Seems similar to the EMI set I bought recently, with a similar number of CDs but costs about 75% more. Arguably good value if you like that sort of thing! May not have quite so many duplicates as the EMI box and covers a shorter period. I might ask for the opera and choral box (EMI) for Christmas. The Decca Karajan box has a higher cost/CD ratio and only 9 CDs.
I'm still chugging through the EMI orchestral music set slowly - but at least it's out of the wrapper.Comment
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I saw this, and thught would'nt it be great idea and that was it. Bascially because of all the duplications and the first recording of Le Sacre that HvK did, which also put me off.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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There's also a big box - 117 CDs - due out later this month...
I assume from the date range, and the fact that it's not from one of the majors, that it's of recordings that are now out of copyright. The price may drop once it becomes available.SteveComment
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Worth remembering that many of the CDs in the DG box are rather short (less than 40 mins in some cases).Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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I seem to have at least half of the recordings already, some of them bought nearly thirty years ago! I wonder at whom these boxes are aimed. Perhaps the people like myself who won't listen to all the discs? (see accompanying thread!)
And I would not count myself as one of Karajan's most ardent admirers. He just did things to so professional a level and with a great orchestra to do his bidding.Comment
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I have this box and it is very beautiful to look at. The CD´s are not remastered and quite a few sound a bit shrill. Also at the end of the first movement of the Tchaikovsky 4 some 25 seconds of music is missing. The repeat is not played. One bar is missing in the Honegger 3, as it was in The Originals release.Comment
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You are not alone.Originally posted by Alf-Prufrock View Post
Unwittingly, he had filled the void left by the death of Hitler in that part of the German psyche which craves for a leader. His behaviour conformed to a pattern. He was unpredictable, ruthless and outspoken.
He was exceptionally intelligent and took great care of his appearance . . . He moved everywhere with a circle of sycophants . . . It is impossible to reconcile such personality defects with such a powerful musical mind, and on a bad day it was daunting to see that the defects could assume command and influence his artistic judgment.
(John Culshaw on Herbert von Karajan)My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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Crikey what an analysis! Was this from one of Culshaw's books, Pianorak?Originally posted by Pianorak View PostComment
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Most likely from Ring Resounding, but would have to check.Originally posted by amateur51 View PostMy life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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Seems a bit scrappy. EMI even went to the trouble of patching in a horn section many years later in their Barbirolli Mahler 5. I'm guessing DG have the missing bits, but ..... *****!Originally posted by Thomas Roth View PostComment
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Putting the Record Straight, IIRC; Culshaw's autobiography in which he also describes how he refused to carry Karajan's coat on their first meeting. This earned him Herbie's respect, but also probably put paid to his extending his contract with DECCA once it ran out: the temptation to work with people (at EMI and DG) over whom he had more control proved too great.Originally posted by Pianorak View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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