Karajan conducts Debussy & Ravel
Concert

Karajan conducts Debussy & Ravel

Berliner Philharmoniker

Production Date: 07/12/1985
54 Min

"You may never again hear playing as beautiful as that – but now you know that it can be done". So an older critic is supposed to have commented to a younger colleague after a performance by Herbert von Karajan in the 1980s. Certainly, during Karajan's final decade no-one disputed that the Berliner Philharmoniker under his direction was a byword for tonal beauty – and what better demonstration than this all-French programme from 1985? Three exquisitely scored orchestral showpieces by Debussy and Ravel reveal Karajan at his most poetic, and his Berlin players at their most dazzling, lustrous and delicate.

Ensemble
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor
Herbert von Karajan

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