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Last week the Berlin Philharmonic started its first U.S. tour. Its conductor: Herbert von Karajan, who was chosen to take the orchestra on the trip after Furtwangler died last fall. In its programs the Berlin Philharmonic stuck rigidly to tradition. Its selections in New York last week were downright condescending: Haydn's Symphony No. 104, Prelude and Love Death from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Beethoven's Symphony No: 5. The Berliners seemed determined to show the New World how the old classical war horses should be tamed...
...orchestra had a mellower, thicker tone than its great U.S. colleagues. Its string section sounded as sweet and intimate as a string quartet, its winds included a solo flute and solo oboe of melting beauty, and its brasses played with a polished but slightly lethargic quality. Conductor von Karajan, lean and dapper, planted his feet firmly, took a stance with elbows bent as if carrying an invisible basket of flowers. His style was mannered-in his most ardent moments he bent stiffly from the waist and closed his eyes-and he gave the impression of overseeing the music rather than...
Mozart: Horn Concertos (Dennis Brain; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan; Angel). Mozart wrote four horn concertos between 1782 and 1786, each one more fun than the last. Britain's Dennis Brain, one of the world masters on the French horn, ripples them off, both elegantly and buoyantly...
...list prices, Angel is offering its first imports this week. Among them: Ravel's Concerto in G, played by Pianist Marguerite Long (to whom Ravel dedicated it) and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, played by London's crack Philharmonia Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, and four Beethoven sonatas, played by Pianist Walter Gieseking...
...veteran Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch, 65, last of the great Wagner traditionalists, a casualty of the grandsons' innovations. He was in the middle of a rehearsal last spring when he suddenly put down his baton and folded his hands. Wieland Wagner, who had already lost temperamental Conductor Herbert von Karajan over artistic disagreements, begged him to explain what he wanted. "I wish," replied Knappertsbusch, "that you would put back into this opera what your grandfather put into it and what you have taken out." The quarrel was never patched...