Credit is also due to the original Producer; Walter Legge & Balance Engineer; Francis Dillnutt. If Richard Osborne's notes to the Warner 2014 remastered box set are correct this was made in the period when Karajan was in a Gentleman's agreement between himself and Legge; A recording contract honored in an exchange of handshakes and black-market whiskey. Venue:An 8th floor bomb damaged flat somewhere in Vienna. Year: Winter 1946. As far as I can acertain Karajan remained loyal to Legge to the end. The maestro only migrated to DG after Legge's acrimonious departure from EMI. This is indeed a wonderful recording. Deucalion have done a fine job remastering their source. To my ears it's better than the late 1990s EMI digital master. However I think Warner's offering from 2014 has a slight edge in terms of clarity. Nevertheless the Deucalion project have done an excellent job here. Long may they keep up their good work.
Perhaps the greatest recorded Mozart performance from Karajan, equal to the best from Bohm. But the conception is very different from Bohm's. Karajan's falls forward into the music, with a marvelous momentum, but Bohm's is stately and severe. I think that Bohm's is the more authentic, but not necessarily the better. This performance from Karajan is much better than the one he recorded with the Berlin Ph.
Credit is also due to the original Producer; Walter Legge & Balance Engineer; Francis Dillnutt. If Richard Osborne's notes to the Warner 2014 remastered box set are correct this was made in the period when Karajan was in a Gentleman's agreement between himself and Legge; A recording contract honored in an exchange of handshakes and black-market whiskey. Venue:An 8th floor bomb damaged flat somewhere in Vienna. Year: Winter 1946. As far as I can acertain Karajan remained loyal to Legge to the end. The maestro only migrated to DG after Legge's acrimonious departure from EMI. This is indeed a wonderful recording. Deucalion have done a fine job remastering their source. To my ears it's better than the late 1990s EMI digital master. However I think Warner's offering from 2014 has a slight edge in terms of clarity. Nevertheless the Deucalion project have done an excellent job here. Long may they keep up their good work.
An absolutely flawless performance by the Master of Mozart
Very good
Perhaps the greatest recorded Mozart performance from Karajan, equal to the best from Bohm. But the conception is very different from Bohm's. Karajan's falls forward into the music, with a marvelous momentum, but Bohm's is stately and severe. I think that Bohm's is the more authentic, but not necessarily the better. This performance from Karajan is much better than the one he recorded with the Berlin Ph.