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Background: From the late 1940s onwards, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was one of the works with which Herbert von Karajan could impress international audiences before he succeeded Wilhelm Furtwängler as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1955. In England, Italy and Japan but above all in Vienna with both the Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras he repeatedly took up the challenge of doing justice to the great demands of this complex work. The line-up of soloists in 1955 was the same as it had been in the spring of 1953, again taking place under the aegis of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. With this tried and tested team he produced a reading of the work which, rereleased on CD, creates an impression of the greatest unity. This was the last occasion on which the Vienna Symphony Orchestra played the Ninth Symphony under the conductor's direction, even though he continued to make guest appearances with them for almost another decade. The tremendous tension from one movement to the next points in many respects to a transitional phase in Karajan's career, a career in which various factors did not always conspire to such felicitous effect as they did in the Großer Saal of Vienna's Musikverein in the summer of 1955. |
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COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven |
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: live recording 1955 |
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Currently scheduled to be available 26-May-2008. Order now and we will ship as soon as possible after that date. |
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