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Herbert von Karajan (April 5, 1908 – July 16, 1989) was a Greek-Austrian conductor. He was one of the most prominent conductors of the postwar period and is widely regarded as the world’s most recorded conductor. Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for thirty-five years.
Biography
Karajan and the compact disc
Karajan played an important role in the development of the original compact disc digital audio format. He championed this new consumer playback technology, lent his prestige to it, and appeared at the first press conference announcing the format. Early CD prototypes had a play time limited to sixty minutes. It is often asserted that the decision to extend the maximum playing time of the compact disc to its standard of seventy-four minutes was achieved in order to adequately accommodate Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. This, however, is denied by Kees Immink, who co-invented the CD.
Nazi Membership
As was the case with soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Karajan’s membership in the Nazi Party and prominent cultural association with Nazism from 1933 to 1945 cast him in an uncomplimentary light after the war. While Karajan’s defenders have argued that he joined the Nazis only to advance his own career, his critics have pointed out that other great conductors such as Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber and Arturo Toscanini fled from fascist Europe at the time. It should be noted, however, that many famous conductors worked in Germany throughout the war years, including Furtwängler, Ansermet, Schuricht, Böhm, Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss, Rother and Elmendorff.
Biography
Karajan and the compact disc
Karajan played an important role in the development of the original compact disc digital audio format. He championed this new consumer playback technology, lent his prestige to it, and appeared at the first press conference announcing the format. Early CD prototypes had a play time limited to sixty minutes. It is often asserted that the decision to extend the maximum playing time of the compact disc to its standard of seventy-four minutes was achieved in order to adequately accommodate Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. This, however, is denied by Kees Immink, who co-invented the CD.
Nazi Membership
As was the case with soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Karajan’s membership in the Nazi Party and prominent cultural association with Nazism from 1933 to 1945 cast him in an uncomplimentary light after the war. While Karajan’s defenders have argued that he joined the Nazis only to advance his own career, his critics have pointed out that other great conductors such as Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber and Arturo Toscanini fled from fascist Europe at the time. It should be noted, however, that many famous conductors worked in Germany throughout the war years, including Furtwängler, Ansermet, Schuricht, Böhm, Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss, Rother and Elmendorff.
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hjbardenhagen wrote:
Happy New Year everybody, there's a new Conductors group on Last.fm! ZZee ya there, Hans-Jürgen
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inczo wrote:
¡Lo máximo, Hervert von Karajan!
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Nilson_Neto wrote:
Don't feed the trolls, please. He's my favourite. Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms & Tchaikovsky? The Karajan's versions are the greatest, simple the best.
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realRemox wrote:
so nice
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Lizoraga wrote:
By far the one and only the so called hype isn't needed at all as he was an outstanding conductor.
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freeaway wrote:
Pure and clean! Greatest... One, and only ;)
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Thornspire wrote:
@Gratis666: Don't blame him for being overhyped, blame the ones who do overhype him. Besides that, he is really a great conductor, but I won't say that he is "the greatest".
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futaichigo wrote:
Karajan + Tchaikovsky Symphonies CD Box Set... *__*/
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iantm wrote:
sterile, go with fricsay or furtwangler
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TeodorC wrote:
The best conductor that ever lived!
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king_prawn95 wrote:
There's trolling in a classical artist, LOL.
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Gratis666 wrote:
Boring, overhyped conductor.
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Seavas wrote:
It may have had more than one reason, but money was definitely a factor. I wouldn't call Furtwängler's conducting 'sharp' either, 'sharp' is Toscanini, Kleiber or Leibowitz, but certainly not Furtwängler - as for the Karajan sound, what's wrong with my characterization? It's an artificial sound that leaves no space for meaningful articulation, it's stiff, yet soft-edged. Utterly boring, but just right for the petty bourgeois of the time.
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leerwind wrote:
Of course, Seavas' description of Karajans work in Berlin is completely wrong. He did, of course, not leave because of money, but because of his health and, more importantly, the "divas" in the orchestra. There have been extreme differences between some of the "stars" in the orchestra and Karajan. Berlin soon found out, that they can always find good musicians, but a truly good conductor is hard to find. The musical impact is dead wrong as well, he had no intention in conducting as sharp as Furtwängler, his ideal was a smooth music that leaves out the "playing sounds" of an instrument. That created the much celebrated smoothness and richness of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.
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Seavas wrote:
To admire Karajan as a conductor one has to look past his questionable personality and far back into his career, where he did great things with Wagner, Strauss, Verdi and other composers from the late-Romantic period, but from the 60s on he began to cultivate his trademark sound - warm, bulky, edgeless. Kitschy, one might say. Compare the recording of Beethoven's Seventh from the 50s with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the one from the 60s with the Berlin Philharmonic, especially the second and fourth movements: While the 60s one still has more grit and character than those that would follow, the march rhythm of the second movement is grossly disfigured, the fourth movement lacks the gravity, the constant struggle between the high and the lower strings, irritating notes thrown in by the brass – Karajan brushes over the edges of Beethoven's music and suppresses many of the secondary voices. He was a superficial conductor, and while some composers profit from surface polish, most do not.
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Seavas wrote:
I agree, as there are far better reasons to dislike Karajan: He was a spineless, self-serving opportunist who always aligned himself with those currently in power. He amassed one of the greatest fortunes of any recording artist, estimated between 300 and 400 billion dollar. He drove up the performance fees for classical music like no one before and after him, monopolized several orchestras at once and ceaselessly played out different record labels against each other to maximality his profits. Just before his death he even resigned from the leadership of the Berlin Philharmonic because he was dissatisfied with his revenues and planned to leave the Deutsche Grammophon in favor of the better-paying Sony company. He was a materialist, a populist and an opportunist. But he was also an authoritarian perfectionist – he certainly was a great conductor in his earlier years, but he was not the be-all-end-all conductor he and his Deutsche Grammophon marketing team made him out to be.
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systemino wrote:
Karajan's Mozart's Requiem is fantastic.
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DiosaCoronada wrote:
Karajan Forever !
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