Karajan in Japan: Wagner, Strauss and Beethoven

Karajan in Japan: Wagner, Strauss and Beethoven

This is early Karajan, broadly traditional in approach, though already with a tendency to lushness that later took over everything he did. He is the least interesting of conductors to watch, his limited gestures bearing little relationship to the works. Michael Tanner


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Michael Tanner

COMPOSERS: Beethoven,R Strauss,Wagner
LABELS: Dynamic
WORKS: Wagner: Die Meistersinger – Prelude; R Strauss: Don Juan; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
PERFORMER: Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan
CATALOGUE NO: 33644



This is early Karajan, broadly traditional in approach, though already with a tendency to lushness that later took over everything he did. He is the least interesting of conductors to watch, his limited gestures bearing little relationship to the works. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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