Deutsche Grammophon: Centenary Collection, 1968-1977 (Box Set) [BOX SET]

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Performer), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Performer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Frederic Chopin (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Hans Werner Henze (Composer), Gustav Mahler (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Bedrich Smetana (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Richard Wagner (Composer), Carlos Kleiber (Conductor), Claudio Abbado (Conductor), Hans Werner Henze (Conductor), Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Karl Böhm (Conductor), Karl Richter (Conductor), Rafael Kubelik (Conductor), Shirley Verrett (Performer)

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• Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Shirley Verrett
• Conductor: Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado, Hans Werner Henze, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, et al.
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Hans Werner Henze, et al.
• Audio CD (November 10, 1998)
• SPARS Code: A-D
• Number of Discs: 12
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B00000DI2Q
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #547,587 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Lots of the great artists here aren't at their best. Emil Gilels gives a perplexingly starchy performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 arrives in a remarkably conservative reading by Rafael Kubelik, and Maurizio Pollini's collaborations with Karl Böhm in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 are both chilly, you-either-love-them-or-hate-them experiences (I favor the latter). Though it's easy to think it's your fault that Hans Werner Henze's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies seem noisy and impenetrable, the booklet quotes the composer as admitting defeat in the latter work. Of course, there's some good stuff here, such as the Carlos Kleiber-conducted La Traviata with Placido Domingo's voice in the voluptuous bloom of youth, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's meticulously sculpted Debussy Images and some Preludes, two discs of Ring cycle chunks from Herbert von Karajan, Martha Argerich playing Chopin's Preludes and Piano Concerto No. 2, and some full-throated Bach Christmas cantatas conducted by Karl Richter, though many collectors will already have those. --David Patrick Stearns

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4.0 out of 5 stars About Karajan's Ring, June 6, 1999

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Amongst the works on this set is a series of excerpts from Karajan's masterful "Ring" from the late sixties. Much has been said about Karajan's approach to the Ring, but I'd like to especially recommend the first of the music-dramas (Das Rheingold): it is, in short and in my opinion, the most remarkable reading of this work available on disc - forget Solti, Levine and Barenboim, you'll be stunned to hear the life-like, soft-spoken (soft-sung), delicately played musical "scherzo" by Wagner. A scherzo it is, compared to the tragedy to come! I notice that unfortunately the prelude to Das Rheingold, an ethereal masterpiece, is NOT included in the extensive excerpts - why, I wonder?