Product Overview
Verdi - Messa da Requiem / Hilde Zadek, Margarete Klose, Helge Rosvaenge, Boris Christoff / Strauss - Metamorphosen / Bartok - Musica Per Archi, Percussione E Celesta / Wiener Philharmoniker / Cond. Herbert Von Karajan / 2 CD Audio 2000
URN 22.151
UPC 8025726221517 MADE IN ITALY
TOTAL TIME: 74:50 (CD1), 68:45 (CD2)
English Summary:
Karajan: the most amazing conductor's career of the whole 20th century! Here he is at the Salzburg Festival of 1949. He is forty years old, he is in full possession of his art and communicates to Verdi's Requiem an unforgettable power. A requiem conceived as an opera: Verdi composed it in the emotion of the death of the Italian poet, Manzoni, whom he revered, hence the dramatic mixture of vocal quartet, chorus and orchestra, to which Karajan gives a extraordinary relief. - Same dramatic tension in Richard Strauss's Metamorphoses: this vast slow movement (lamenting the ruins of the war) has an emotional density experienced from the inside by the Chief and his musicians who record in November 1947, amid the ruins of Europe. - These two CDs are complemented by a recording of Béla Bartòk's masterpiece. Karajan masters this totally original instrumentation by giving it amazing strength and clarity. - ADD Mono 2: 38: 25 / Italian-English-French booklet
Messe de Réquiem Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Metamorphosen pour 23 seul cordes, AV 142Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Musique pour cordes, percussion et célesta, Sz 106
Hilde Zadek (soprano)
Boris Christoff (basse)
Helge Rosvaenge (ténor)
Margarete Klose (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Wiener Philharmoniker
Vienna Singverein
Herbert Karajan
Tracklist:
CD 1:
Disc: 1
Disc: 2
