Sunday, May 4, 2025

[SACD] Herbert von Karajan - Live in Berlin 1953-1969 - Box Set 24SACDs

Label : BPO
Format : ISO
Cover : Front

Tracklist :

SACD 1, Mono: 
Concert No. 1
8 September 1953 ꞏ Titania-Palast
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica”

Concert No 2
22 November 1954 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

SACD 2, Mono:
Concert No 3
22 February 1955 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod

Concert No. 4
21 January 1956 ꞏ Paulus-Gemeinde Zehlendorf
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D minor, K. 466
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 “Jupiter”

SACD 3, Mono: 
Concert No 5 5
10 December 1956 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Ariadne auf Naxos op. 60
Libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874 – 1929)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

SACD 4, Mono: 
Concert No. 6
19 February 1957 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) 
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100

SACD 5, Mono: 
Concert No. 7
25 April 1957 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Elisabeth Grümmer, soprano
Marga Höffgen, mezzo-soprano
Ernst Haefliger, tenor
Gottlob Frick, bass
Chor der Sankt Hedwigs-Kathedrale
Karl Forster, chorus master

SACD 6, Mono: 
Concert No. 8
25 May 1957 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C
minor, Op. 37
Glenn Gould, piano
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

SACD 7, Mono: 
Concert No. 9
20 September 1959 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 5, HWV 323
Rolf Liebermann (1910-1999)
Capriccio for Soprano, Violin and Orchestra
Irmgard Seefried, soprano
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

SACD 8, Mono: 
Concert No 10
10 October 1961 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Daphnis et Chloé, Orchestral Suite No. 2
Symphonie chorégraphique on a scenario by
Mikhail Fokin

SACD 9, Mono: 
Concert No. 11
1 March 1963 ꞏ Hochschule für Musik
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
Maria Stader, soprano
Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
Luigi Alva, tenor
Walter Berry, bass
RIAS Kammerchor
Günther Arndt, chorus master
Edith Picht-Axenfeldt, harpsichord
Helmut Schlövogt, oboe d’amore
Fritz Wesenigk, Herbert Rotzoll, Karl Pfeifer, piccolo trumpets

SACD 10, Stereo: 
Concert No. 12
15 October 1963 ꞏ Philharmonie
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Gundula Janowitz, soprano
Sieglinde Wagner, mezzo-soprano
Luigi Alva, tenor
Otto Wiener, baritone
Chor der Sankt Hedwigs-Kathedrale, RIAS
Kammerchor
Günther Arndt, chorus master

SACD 11, Mono: 
Concert No. 13
5 May 1964 ꞏ Philharmonie
Richard Strauss
Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra in D major
Lothar Koch, oboe
Four Last Songs
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano

SACD 12, Mono:
Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40

Concert No  14
25 February 1965 ꞏ Philharmonie
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) 
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (2nd version)
1. & 2. Movement

SACD 13, Mono:
Anton Bruckner 
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (2nd version)
3. & 4. Movement

SACD 14, Mono: 
Concert No 15
23 September 1965 ꞏ Philharmonie
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major, K. 287 “Lodron Serenade No. 2”
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
Aubade for Orchestra
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”

SACD 15, Mono:
Concert No 16
30 December 1965 ꞏ Philharmonie
Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra, Symphonic Poem, Op. 30
Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35
Pierre Fournier, cello
Giusto Cappone, viola

SACD 16, Stereo:
Concert No. 17
22 October 1967 ꞏ Philharmonie
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for 3 Pianos and Orchestra in F major, K. 242
Jörg Demus, Christoph Eschenbach, Herbert
von Karajan, piano

SACD 17, Stereo:
Anton Bruckner 
Symphony No. 4 in E flat major “Romantic”
(2nd version)

SACD 18, Stereo: 
Concert No. 18
1 January 1968 ꞏ Philharmonie
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Gundula Janowitz, soprano
Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
Jess Thomas, tenor
Walter Berry, bass
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Walter Hagen-Groll, chorus master

SACD 19, Mono: 
Concert No. 19
28 September 1968 ꞏ Philharmonie
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

SACD 20, Mono:
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Géza Anda, piano

SACD 21, Stereo: 
Concert No. 20
30 September 1968 ꞏ Philharmonie
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

SACD 22, Stereo: 
Concert No. 21
5 January 1969 ꞏ Philharmonie
George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in C minor, Op. 6 No. 8 HWV 326
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Atmosphères
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944 “The Great”

SACD 23, Mono: 
Concert No 22
3 February 1969 ꞏ Philharmonie
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) 
Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

SACD 24, Stereo: 
Concert No 23
21 September 1969 ꞏ Philharmonie
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106
Ludwig van Beeethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica”

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  2. Eighteen of these 24 SACDs are mono. I down converted to 16/44 FLAC and compared to the .dsf files on high end equipment and cannot tell a justifiable difference. These recordings are only slightly better than radio broadcasts. Musicweb International notes in their reviews the sound does not match the original (or remastered) DG recordings. On the other hand, this series contains arguably Karajan’s best Ein Heldenleben.

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