- Original Release Date: 6 April 2007
- Release Date: 6 April 2007
- Label: Decca (UMO)
- Copyright: (C) 1995 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
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- Total Length: 1:18:42
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- ASIN: B004BU5YZG
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 38,292 in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 in MP3 Albums)
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
By ch0pper
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this recording when it first appeared on vinyl. At the time, provided that you had a decent quality turntable, cartridge and tone arm, connected to a decent amplifier and speakers, it was utterly enthralling. The recording is incredibly rich and the full detail of the orchestra can be clearly discerned.
What was, for me, uncanny, was the reverbaration and echo in the recording hall that was clear on the disc. The dynamic range was huge, yet the detail was amazing.
The transfer to CD is a masterpiece. It has lost none of the presence and immediacy of the vinyl recording and there is reduced 'background noise'.
This is the 'Also sprach' to buy. You owe it to your neighbours to play it loudly and let them enjoy this stunning recording.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Thirty years later, there still hasn't been a better sounding "Zarathustra". There have been more analytical recordings (including Karajan 1984), and higher-fidelity, but the beauty of the sounds that emerge from the speakers transcends any technical considerations. (It is earphone-safe too, with no peaking or distortion.) More importantly, the music ebbs and flows naturally, like the thoughts of a great mind: Karajan was a Strauss master, and so, it seems, was every member of the Berlin Philharmonic. (Special praise to the concert master, Michel Schwalbé, who delivers the Tanzlied with admirable purity of tone and Viennese Schwung and yes, a sense of ecstasy.) This is exhilarating stuff, whether you want to commune with the spirit of Nietzsche, or revel in orchestral virtuosity, or watch galaxies form.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Nicholas Casley
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
The opening organ chord lasts eighteen seconds on this 1973 recording of Also Sprach Karajan. I prefer the 1984 version (also reviewed on Amazon), to which I give the full five stars. Here, the timpani are more to the fore, the sound is loftier, more stately, but not lush. One often feels in a trance as the music hangs in the air, for example at the end of the measured descent at the end of the `Song of the Grave' - and of course at the music's very end.
The performance is more restrained (if that is possible) with a greater contrast in volumes. The Midnight Bell chimes suitably loud but is less resonant than in 1984, more of a clang than a reverberative dong.
But if you simply must have Karajan (and why not? In the sleeve notes Richard Osborne rightly declares that "no one has played `Also ...' with more lustrous sound"), the benefit of this earlier disc over the latter is that it also comes with a `Till Eulenspiegel' that is very much alive; fine brass-playing in the Wagnerian `Don Juan' (but which also appears on the 1984 disc); and the rarely-heard, exotic, almost Ravelian `Dance of the Seven Veils'. You pays your money and takes your choice.
The performance is more restrained (if that is possible) with a greater contrast in volumes. The Midnight Bell chimes suitably loud but is less resonant than in 1984, more of a clang than a reverberative dong.
But if you simply must have Karajan (and why not? In the sleeve notes Richard Osborne rightly declares that "no one has played `Also ...' with more lustrous sound"), the benefit of this earlier disc over the latter is that it also comes with a `Till Eulenspiegel' that is very much alive; fine brass-playing in the Wagnerian `Don Juan' (but which also appears on the 1984 disc); and the rarely-heard, exotic, almost Ravelian `Dance of the Seven Veils'. You pays your money and takes your choice.
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