Karajan: The Resurrection?

[Karafan]

Don't know what this might add to the sum of our knowledge, but it could well be worth a punt when it is released....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B5AIB50/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

K.

[Petrushka]

I was hoping someone had unearthed a recording of Mahler 2 from HvK when I saw the thread title! Now that would add lots to our knowledge.

I've got one or two DVD's on Karajan like this and one would hope this is better than them.

[Karafan]

I was hoping someone had unearthed a recording of Mahler 2 from HvK when I saw the thread title! Now that would add lots to our knowledge

Sorry about that, Petrushka!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Released on 1st April.

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[Barbirollians]

I know HVK was renowned for thinking he was God ....but really

[hafod]

I know HVK was renowned for thinking he was God ....but really

A dead musician finds himself sitting in an orchestra composed of all the greatest performers who ever lived. Over in the cello section he recognizes Casals and Rostropovich, but he doesn't recognize the first violinist so he asks his seatmate. "Oh, Paganini's the concertmaster--and that's Sarasate next to him." He's flabbergasted--there's never been a greater orchestra and he's playing in it--it MUST be heaven! And then, the conductor strides to the podium, his chiselled visage stern with command, his silver hair gleaming as shafts of light stream down upon him. Just before he lifts his hands dramatically for the downbeat, our musician turns to his seatmate and asks, "Is that, is that..." "No" his seatmate interrupts, "That's God, he just THINKS he's von Karajan."

The old jokes are the best.

[amateur51]

A dead musician finds himself sitting in an orchestra composed of all the greatest performers who ever lived. Over in the cello section he recognizes Casals and Rostropovich, but he doesn't recognize the first violinist so he asks his seatmate. "Oh, Paganini's the concertmaster--and that's Sarasate next to him." He's flabbergasted--there's never been a greater orchestra and he's playing in it--it MUST be heaven! And then, the conductor strides to the podium, his chiselled visage stern with command, his silver hair gleaming as shafts of light stream down upon him. Just before he lifts his hands dramatically for the downbeat, our musician turns to his seatmate and asks, "Is that, is that..." "No" his seatmate interrupts, "That's God, he just THINKS he's von Karajan."

The old jokes are the best.

Lovely, hafod!

[silvestrione]

A dead musician finds himself sitting in an orchestra composed of all the greatest performers who ever lived. Over in the cello section he recognizes Casals and Rostropovich, but he doesn't recognize the first violinist so he asks his seatmate. "Oh, Paganini's the concertmaster--and that's Sarasate next to him." He's flabbergasted--there's never been a greater orchestra and he's playing in it--it MUST be heaven! And then, the conductor strides to the podium, his chiselled visage stern with command, his silver hair gleaming as shafts of light stream down upon him. Just before he lifts his hands dramatically for the downbeat, our musician turns to his seatmate and asks, "Is that, is that..." "No" his seatmate interrupts, "That's God, he just THINKS he's von Karajan."

The old jokes are the best.

That is wonderful! Thanks indeed, Hafod

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've heard several variations on that joke, but it remains an all-time classic.

[Mandryka]

A cartoon in Richard Osborne's Karajan biography features von K seated on his psychiatrist's couch. The caption reads: 'It all started after I created the heaven and the earth....'

[hafod]

I've heard several variations on that joke, but it remains an all-time classic.

Two further takes on this classic joke:

Herbert von Karajan and his wife enter a hotel room:
She - My god, it is cold in here.
HvK - But, liebchen, when we are in private, you can call me Herbert.

Bernstein and Karajan are seated at either end of a long table at a banquet for the world's best conductors. Bernstein says "I had a dream last night that I was in the presence of God, and he turned to me and said 'Lennie, you are the world's greatest conductor!' "
Karajan stands up at the opposite end and glares at Bernstein: "I said NO SUCH THING!"

[richardfinegold]

A cartoon in Richard Osborne's Karajan biography features von K seated on his psychiatrist's couch. The caption reads: 'It all started after I created the heaven and the earth....'