Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonien Nr.1-9 (mit Blu-ray Audio)

Die neun Beethoven Symphonien in der legendären Einspielung Herbert von Karajans mit den Berliner Philharmonikern aus dem Jahr 1963 auf fünf CDs + einer Blu-ray Audio, remastert in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Karajan hat sämtliche Symphonien von Beethoven mehrfach eingespielt, die Aufnahme von 1963 aus der Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin gilt nach Kritikermeinung als die Beste.

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THE FAMOUS 1963 KARAJAN BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES

(adapted from Richard Osborne’s brilliant booklet note, attached)

· Karajan recorded the Complete Symphonies of Beethoven no fewer than 4 times for DG, but this first 1963 recording was financially the most daring, artistically the most radical, and commercially the most successful.

· It was estimated that over 100, 000 boxes would have to be sold if Deutsche Grammophon’s gargantuan 1.5 million Deutschmark investment was to be recouped. The head of a rival company predicted that Deutsche Grammophon was heading for “a colossal financial catastrophe”.

· By 1973 nearly one million sets had been sold, ten times the original breakeven estimate. 50 years on from its original launch, the set remains the best-selling Beethoven cycle of all time.

· The 1963 Berlin set dazzled like no other, aided in no small measure by the clean, clear, daringly “lit” recordings made in Berlin’s Jesus-Christus-Kirche by the young Günter Hermanns whose debut as Karajan’s principal recording engineer this was.

· Critics and the record-buying public were enthused above all by the urgency and beauty of the music-making and by a fierce sense of joy which reached its apogee in a thrillingly played and eloquently sung account of the finale of the epic Ninth Symphony.

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