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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies no 4, 5, & 6 / Karajan, Berlin PO
from: Deutsche Grammophon
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028945308821
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
MPN: 453088
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: July 15, 1997
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
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Editorial Review:
This moderately priced package gives you the best of Herbert von Karajan's Tchaikovsky performances, and when he was "on" with this composer, he was very impressive indeed. These are exceptionally well played, exciting, even noble versions of the composer's three most popular symphonies, and although Karajan recorded each of them four or five times, this least expensive edition is still the one to get. --David Hurwitz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - As Mr. Welk used to say, "wonderful, wonderful."
I have symphonies 1 to 3 on vinyl and I bought from Amazon symphonies 4 to 6 about 4 or 5 months ago. These date from the mid 70s and I just viewed symphonies 4 to 6 on DVD via NETFLIX.
My very first classical lp was Ormandy & the Mormon Tab choir doing the 1812 overture with "Russian Church Bells" and canon. I have always loved Tchaikovsky. I have recently gotten into his solo piano music and if you have never you are really missing out--Chopin esque to say the least.
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Rating:  - Very good, but with some disappointments
We're all familiar with the cliché about the opening of Beethoven's fifth being "fate knocking at the door." If this is true, then the opening of Tschaikovsky's fourth is "fate brought the whole SWAT team to kick the door in." The Berlin Philharmonic's gutsy brass are just perfect for this task, and prove it over and over in the course of the symphony. I would have to call the orchestra's rendition under von Karajan as "definitive" as any I've heard.
In the fifth symphony, I do have a beef ... Read More
Rating:  - Much too fastly played for a true Russian flavour.
The problem with Karajan is that late in his career, he seems to look for the inventive by doing some extreme things with the music he is well capable of conducting. Although these recordings of the 4-6 of the Tchaikovsky symphonies were done in the seventies, the greatly exaggerated tempi is one of those features of his style that will drive you mad as a Russian afficionado.
For the price this is going, I was convinced to have a good deal, only to be disappointed by the resultive playing. ... Read More
Rating: - The best recording of von Karajan
I have always been thinking that Tchaikovsky exists between Hollywood movie composers and Broadway musical writers; after all he was a man who wrote Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.
To me his position was not on serious side of vast universe of classical music.
Not until I heard the Path?tique symphony recorded by Karajan today.
My younger brother and I were sitting with my parents in our living room watching Toshiba black & white TV set when Herbert von Karajan ... Read More
Rating: - The most penetrating account of the 6th on record
All three symphonies are superbly realized in this set. But the great climax in the 4th movement of the 6th symphony will simply leave you paralyzed. Karajan records Tchaikovsky's agony like no other conductor ever has or likely ever will.
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