Brahms - Symphony no.1, Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT1431
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd November 2008
Contents
Works
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op.4 (orchestral version)
Artists
Berliner PhilharmonikerConductor
Herbert von KarajanWorks
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op.4 (orchestral version)
Artists
Berliner PhilharmonikerConductor
Herbert von KarajanAbout
As physical frailty began to manifest itself in the early 1980s, and the painful spinal condition that had nearly cost him his life in the winter of 1975-76 became ever more problematic, a feeling spread abroad that each new visit might be the last. This was certainly the case in London on 6 October 1988 – albeit mingled with a sense that having survived thus far this dauntless octogenarian might well go on and on. It was not to be. This would indeed be his final London concert.
Unbeknown to the audience arriving at the Royal Festival Hall that evening, the concert itself hung in the balance. The players were present but their instruments, which were being transported by road from Paris, had been delayed by industrial action in France. With the help of a high-speed police escort from Dover, they arrived at the hall at 8pm. The concert began, an hour late, at 9.
Why hadn’t the instruments been airlifted from France, grumbled one critic, noting the sky-high ticket prices and sponsorship by a leading bank. He had a point, though those in the hall were more relieved than aggrieved, impressed by what one wag dubbed the Berliners’ ‘Dunkirk spirit’. If the orchestra was tired and on edge, it hardly showed. Sunday Telegraph critic Malcolm Hayes observed: ‘It is a measure of the greatness of the orchestra and of its conductor Herbert von Karajan, that after such an exasperating pre-concert hiatus – which had prevented the chance of even a quick rehearsal in the Festival Hall – they delivered performances of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Brahms’s First Symphony that justified every superlative in the book’.
Extract from the note © Richard Osborne, 2008
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