Herbert von Karajan conducts Mozart, Ravel, Tchaikovsky: Recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall, 1955 & 1956

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[In] Karajan’s supple, seductive version of Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, the Philharmonia strings ideally responsive. A lean, driven Tchaikovsky 4 is phenomenally exciting; opening with a really... — The Arts Desk, 10th March 2018 More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: ICAC5142
Label: ica classics
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Work length42:21

Album only

Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1955 and 1956
Recording Venue: The Royal Festival Hall, England, United Kingdom

I. Andante sostenuto

Track length17:58

Album only

II. Andantino in modo di canzona (Live)

Track length9:38

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III. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato

Track length5:55

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IV. Allegro con fuoco (Live)

Track length8:50

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Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole

Work length15:01

$4.00

$6.00

Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1955 and 1956
Recording Venue: The Royal Festival Hall, England, United Kingdom

I. Prélude à la nuit. Très modéré (Live)

Track length4:35

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II. Malagueña. Assez vif (Live)

Track length1:57

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III. Habanera. Assez lent et d'un rythme las (Live)

Track length2:18

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IV. Feria. Assez animé (Live)

Track length6:11

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Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K385 'Haffner'

Work length17:41

$4.00

$6.00

Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1955 and 1956
Recording Venue: The Royal Festival Hall, England, United Kingdom

I. Allegro con spirito (Live)

Track length5:50

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$1.50

II. Andante (Live)

Track length4:26

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III. Menuetto (Live)

Track length3:40

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IV. Finale. Presto (Live)

Track length3:45

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488

Work length25:41

$4.00

$6.10

Clara Haskil (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1955 and 1956
Recording Venue: The Royal Festival Hall, England, United Kingdom

I. Allegro (Live)

Track length10:58

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II. Adagio (Live)

Track length6:52

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III. Allegro assai (Live)

Track length7:51

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Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'

Work length28:30

$5.00

$7.60

Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 1955 and 1956
Recording Venue: The Royal Festival Hall, England, United Kingdom

I. Allegro vivace (Live)

Track length8:26

$1.50

$2.30

II. Andante cantabile (Live)

Track length9:25

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III. Menuetto. Allegretto (Live)

Track length4:53

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IV. Finale. Molto allegro (Live)

Track length5:46

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This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter archive. After 12 years of negotiation starting in 2005, ICA Classics have signed an exclusive long term agreement with the Lyrita Recorded Edition who are responsible for Richard Itter Trust. The collection is very important for collectors because it has never been released before onto the market.

Herbert von Karajan’s association with the Philharmonia Orchestra started in 1948 and continued to 1960. Despite this long relationship, there are practically no live recordings from London’s Royal Festival Hall of Karajan and the Philharmonia caught ‘on the wing’.

Karajan’s live Philharmonia account of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 in 1955 is an unrestrained version of his studio recording of 1953 which The Gramophone descibed as ‘phenominal, a record in a thousand’.

Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole was played in London just prior to Karajan’s Philharmonia tour of the USA in Autumn 1955 and was thought at the time to be even more sensuosly beautiful than his widely praised studio account with the Philharmonia from 1953.

The Mozart concert is important because it features the Romanian pianist Clara Haskil (1896-1960) with whom Karajan had an extraordinary rapport. Since they were both contracted to different companies, they never recorded together which makes this memento of their collaboration especially valuable. Furthermore, this live 1956 London performance of the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony also fills an important gap in Karajan’s Philharmonia discography, since a studio recording begun in August 1953 was never completed.

Presented as a 2CD brilliant box.

The booklet notes are by Richard Osborne, author of Herbert von Karajan - A Life in Music.

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10th March 2018

[In] Karajan’s supple, seductive version of Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, the Philharmonia strings ideally responsive. A lean, driven Tchaikovsky 4 is phenomenally exciting; opening with a really arresting horn fanfare, it’s dark, passionate and brilliantly controlled, Karajan making the first movement’s rambling development seem unusually cogent. Excellent, in other words

Herbert von Karajan conducts Mozart, Ravel, Tchaikovsky

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