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This is a very distinguished coupling, superbly played by the BPO – a truly 'legendary' reissue, quite unsurpassed on record. Karajan never approached contemporary music with the innate radicalism... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jan 1998
Catalogue No: 4577212
Label: DG
Series: Originals
Length: 73 minutes

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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

29:53

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1973-12-06
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin

1. Grave (Arr. For String Orchestra By Schoenberg - 1943 Revised Version)

6:37

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2. Molto rallentando (Arr. For String Orchestra By Schoenberg - 1943 Revised Version)

5:51

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3. Pesante (Arr. For String Orchestra By Schoenberg - 1943 Revised Version)

2:24

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4. Adagio (Arr. For String Orchestra By Schoenberg - 1943 Revised Version) (I)

10:24

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5. Adagio (Arr. For String Orchestra By Schoenberg - 1943 Revised Version) (II)

4:37

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Schoenberg: Pelléas und Mélisande, Op.5

43:23

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1974-01-26
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin

1. Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt - zögernd

4:30

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2. Heftig

3:06

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3. Lebhaft

3:59

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4. Sehr rasch

7:12

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5. Ein wenig bewegt

1:21

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6. Langsam

3:22

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7. Ein wenig bewegter

4:09

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8. Sehr langsam

4:43

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9. Etwas bewegt

2:20

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10. In gehender Bewegung

2:27

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11. Breit

6:14

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2010

This is a very distinguished coupling, superbly played by the BPO – a truly 'legendary' reissue, quite unsurpassed on record. Karajan never approached contemporary music with the innate radicalism and inside knowledge of a composer-conductor like Boulez; yet he can't be accused of distorting reality by casting a pall of late-Romantic opulence and languor over these works. He's understandably most at home in the expansive and often openly tragic atmosphere of Schoenberg's early tone-poems Verklärte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande. The richly blended playing of the BPO provides the ideal medium for Karajan's seamless projection of structure and expression. He remains especially sensitive to the music's lyricism, to the connections that to his ears override the contrasts.
Although Verklärte Nacht has certainly been heard in performances less redolent of 19th-century tradition, as well as less calculated in its recorded acoustic, this remains a powerfully dramatic reading. One man's view, then: but, given the man, a notably fascinating one.

2011 edition

They have never been presented as ravishingly as by Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic on this splendidly recorded disc.

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