Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy
Herbert von Karajan was a master of the fine blending of acoustic colours. This quality is shown to its best advantage in this programme of masterpieces of French Impressionism. Works include Debussy’s multifaceted La Mer, and his lascivious, dream-like Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé, a work which combines shimmering transience with uncompromising energy.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
© 1980 Unitel
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- Performances and conversation: Karajan conducts Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9
- Karajan conducts Brahms’s Symphonies Nos. 1–4
- Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
- Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony
- Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
- Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 2 and 8
- Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
- Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5
- Karajan and Weissenberg perform Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov
- Karajan conducts Brahms’s “German Requiem” in Salzburg
