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Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert 1988 - Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 & Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 / SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menus / Liner notes, Biography / RECORDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 AT THE PHILHARMONIE, BERLIN / DVD

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Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert 1988 - Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 & Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 / SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menus / Liner notes, Biography / RECORDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 AT THE PHILHARMONIE, BERLIN / DVD

 

Format: NTSC

Run time: 118 Minutes

UPC: 074644598698

 

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Yes
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 7.5 x 0.62 inches; 4.8 Ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Classical, Color, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 58 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ October 26, 1999
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Various
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (PCM Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Classical
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

 

If you’re a double-bassist or violist, the idea of a New Year’s concert of Strauss waltzes might well give you a case of the screaming habdabs. Millions of bars of ‘oom’ (bass) and ‘pah-pah’ (viola), while the other instruments get to have fun, can indeed be a kind of torture in most orchestras. But then most orchestras are not the Vienna Philharmonic, and most conductors aren’t Herbert von Karajan – and when those two titanic forces met for a legendary New Year’s Day concert of Strauss works in 1987, every ‘oom’ and every ‘pah-pah’ sounded like magic. Thirty-four years on the magic is as vivid as ever.

The most important factor is that Herbert von Karajan takes the music seriously, and there’s not a moment when he goes into ‘oom-pah-pah’ autopilot. But also – and it’s wonderful to hear in a conductor with such a reputation for Austro-German seriousness – he has fun. He pulls the tempi about, and keeps it lively and dance-like. It’s sensuously playful in a way that only Austrians seem to be able to manage. Try this gorgeous account of ‘The Blue Danube,’ performed as an encore, to get a taste of the event – and marvel at the accuracy of the idiosyncratic ‘Vienna rhythm,’ in which a teeny-tiny emphasis is put on the first of the ‘pahs’ in the ‘oom-pah-pah.’

HERBERT VON KARAJAN
NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERT 1988
SPECIAL FEATURES
• Interactive Menus
• Liner notes, Biography
Languages: English, Deutsch & Français
• Audio: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital
 
REALIZATION: Herbert von Karajan, Ernst Wild
PRODUCER: Uli Märkle
RECORDING SUPERVISION: Michel Glotz
RECORDING DIRECTOR: Günter Hermanns
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ernst Wild
RECORDED 31 DECEMBER 1988 AT THE
PHILHARMONIE, BERLIN
A co-production of ZDF and TELEMONDIAL
Program 1989 TELEMONDIAL
ART DIRECTION/DESIGN: Roxanne Slimak
PHOTOGRAPHY: Siegfried Lauterwasser
Package 1999 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

 

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