Holst - The Planets / R. Strauss - Don Juan op.20 | Decca - Originals E4758225

Holst - The Planets / R. Strauss - Don Juan op.20

Label: Decca - Originals

Cat No: E4758225

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 19th March 2007

Contents

Artists

Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor

Herbert Von Karajan

Works

Holst, Gustav

The Planets, op.32

Strauss, Richard

Don Juan, op.20

Artists

Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor

Herbert Von Karajan

About

Karajan & the Vienna Philharmonic - the recording which established The Planets as central repertoire,  newly coupled with a great Strauss orchestral favourite.
At the time Karajan made his first recording of The Planets in 1961, the work was still very much the property of English orchestras and conductors such as Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Malcolm Sargent. There can be little doubt that this recording with Karajan and the Viennese forces went a very long way in helping secure a place in the international repertory for Holst's masterpiece. The reviews greeting the original release of the LP of The Planets were unanimous in their praise for the recording:
 
'I found this an enormously exciting performance of The Planets ... Karajan gives an absolutely splendid performance, breathing new life into the music ... and it is just so welcome to see how finely this music comes up in the hands of a ... different conductor of such gifts ... this is a performance to be heard ... Karajan has brought a new excitement to this music ... I do hope he is playing it to his audiences in Vienna'. Gramophone May 1962 
 

Producer: John Culshaw
Timing: 69:72 • Digital Status: ADD
Recorded: Sofiensaal, Vienna, June 1960 (Strauss); September 1961 (Holst)

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