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The Karajan Collection: Philharmonia Promenade Concert.(Sound Recording Review)
The Karajan Collection: Philharmonia Promenade Concert. Herbert von Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra. EMI 7243 4 76900-2.
The powers that be at EMI continue to find new and varied ways of repackaging their older material, of which they have one of the biggest catalogues in the business. Here, they have put together a series of albums featuring various conductors, "The Karajan Collection" comprising several separate discs, some of them with the Philharmonia Orchestra and some of them with the Berlin Philharmonic.
The booklet note tells us that the Promenade Concert (1958-1960) is made up of the last recordings Karajan made for EMI with the Philharmonia Orchestra before he left for Berlin. It seems an odd way to go out, this most sober-minded maestro doing a collection of lightweight showpieces, but it's all in good fun, and Karajan genuinely seems to be having a jolly ...
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