Duration
54 Min
Karajan conducts Debussy & Ravel
Concert
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
