Famous Overtures

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  • Mozart: Concertos Pour Cor
  • Verdi: Aida
  • Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Don Juan
  • Mozart: Requiem [1961 recording]
  • Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Bizet: Carmen
  • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
  • Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Divertimenti KV 136, 137, 138
  • Mozart: Divertimenti
  • Mozart: 4 Horn Concertos
  • Händel: Concerti Grossi
  • Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan
  • Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht; Variations for Orchestra
  • Tschaikowsky: Klavierkonzert No. 1; Violinkonzert
  • Bruckner: Symphonie No. 8; Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
  • Richard Strauss: Salome
  • Gustav Mahler: 6 Symphonie; Rückert-Lieder
  • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
  • Tschaikovsky: Symphonie No. 1 "Winterträume"; Rokoko-Variationen
  • Tchaikovsky
  • Mahler: Symphonie No. 4
  • Schumann, Grieg: Piano Concertos
  • Puccini: Turandot
  • Mozart: Great Mass in C minor
  • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik [European Import]
  • Haydn: Symphony Nos. 103 & 104
  • Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet; The Nutcracker Suite
  • Mendelssohn and Bruch: Violin Concertos
  • Johannes Brahms: Violinkonzert; Doppelkonzert
  • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2; Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande
  • Bizet: Carmen
  • Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  • Richard Wagner: Parsifal
  • Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
  • Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
  • Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan
  • Beethoven: Violinkonzert
  • Beethoven: Symphonie No. 9 [1983]
  • Bizet: L'Arlésienne-Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Carmen-Suite
  • Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Highlights)
  • Tschaikowsky: Symphonie No. 6 "Pathetique"
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
  • Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier [Highlights]
  • Dvorák: Symphonie No. 9; Smetana: Moldau
  • Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Overtures
  • Rossini, Suppé: Ouvertüren
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni
  • Giovanni Paolo II celebra nella Patriarcale Basilica Vaticana la Liturgia Eucaristica
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
  • Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue
  • Beethoven: Symphony No 3; Overture Leonore III
  • Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 8; Fidelio Overture
  • Puccini: La Bohème
  • Tschaikowsky: Ouverture Solennelle "1812"; Streicherserenade
  • Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
  • Bach: Matthäus-Passion
  • Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
  • Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz
  • Verdi: Overtures and Preludes
  • Verdi: Otello
  • Till Eulenspiegel, Peer Gynt, Romeo & Juliet
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathétique
  • Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan; Tod und Verklärung
  • Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28
  • Puccini: Madama Butterfly
  • Mozart: Requiem [1986 recording]
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni [Highlights]
  • Méditation: Opera Overtures & Intermezzi
  • Great Violin Concertos
  • Franck: Symphonie en Ré majeur; Variations Symphoniques
  • Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 7
  • Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 4; Egmont Overture
  • Beethoven: Egmont; Wellingtons Sieg; Märsche
  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
  • Beethoven: Fidelio
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem [1972]
  • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
  • Puccini: Tosca
  • Wagner: Tannhäuser; Siegfried-Idyll; Tristan und Isolde
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Capriccio Italien
  • Les Triomphes du Classique
  • Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Symphony in C; Concerto in D
  • Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
  • Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 "Classical" & 5
  • Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
  • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41
  • Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  • Mozart: Così fan tutte
  • Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp; Flute Concerto No. 1
  • Karajan Conducts Orchestral Favourites
  • Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
  • Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
  • Herbert von Karajan Conducts R. Strauss & Mozart
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
  • The First Recordings, Vol. 6
  • The Essential Karajan
  • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
  • Puccini: La Bohème [Highlights]
  • Prokofiev: Peter und der Wolf; Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Brahms: Ungarische Tänze
  • Radetzky-Marsh: Preußische und Osterreichische Märsche
  • Tschaikowsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Puccini: Madama Butterfly Highlights
  • Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro [Highlights]
  • Bruckner: Symphonie No. 8
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 4
  • Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies
  • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5
  • Beethoven: Coriolano Ouverture; Sinfonias Nos. 7 & 4
  • Bizet: Carmen [Highlights]
  • Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonien
  • Christmas with Leontyne Price
  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Mozart: Coronation Mass
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No.10
  • Ravel: La Valse; Rapsodie espagnole; Alborada del gracioso; Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5
  • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
  • Mozart: Late Symphonies
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni [1969 Salzburg]
  • Karajan Festival
  • Handel, Ravel, Britten, Debussy, Bartók, etc.
  • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor [1955]
  • Bruckner: Symphony 5
  • Bruckner: 9 Symphonies
  • Brahms: The Complete Symphonies [1978]
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 7; Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
  • Beethoven: 9 Symphonien
  • Bach: Mass in B minor [1952]
  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 "Hymn of Praise" [Germany]
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 [1966 Recording]
  • Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
  • Beethoven: Symphonie No. 9 [1962]; Ouvertüre "Coriolan"
  • Franz Lehár: Die lustige Witwe; Franz von Suppé: Ouverturen
  • Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde
  • Strauss: Elektra
  • Sibelius: Op. Nos. 2, 9, 11, 26 & 112
  • Mozart: Concertos for Clarinet, Oboe & Bassoon
  • Händel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6/12; Tschaikowsky: Symphonie No. 4
  • Don Giovanni
  • Antonín Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
  • Johann Strauss, Josef Strauss: Walzer & Polkas
  • Debussy: La Mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2; Pavane
  • Mad about the Waltz
  • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
  • Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 3
  • Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
  • Verdi: Il Trovatore
  • Tschaikowsky: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1; Rachmaninov: 5 Preludes
  • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
  • Preussiche & Österreichische Märsche
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No. 9; Kindertotenlieder; Ruckertlieder
  • Grieg & Sibelius
  • Bizet: Carmen
  • Wagner: Overture & Preludes
  • Nielsen: Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable; Sibelius: Tapiola
  • Wagner: The Ring [Highlights]
  • Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy: My Favorite Moments From Aida
  • Mendelssohn, Brahms: Violin Concertos
  • Mad About Wagner
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Aida
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2/Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.26
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Mozart: Krönungsmesse
  • Marches
  • Verdi: Messa da Requiem [1984]
  • Verdi: Don Carlo
  • Schubert: Symphony No.8; Rosamunde; Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Alexander Borodin: Symphony No. 2; Polovtsian Dances; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
  • Verdi: Il Trovatore [2 CDs]
  • Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan
  • Les Plus Beaux Adagios
  • Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  • Mozart: Concertos pour Instruments à vent
  • Dvorák: Cellokonzert; Tchaikowsky: Rokoko-Variationen
  • Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
  • Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Overtures
  • Arthur Honegger: Symphonien Nos. 2 & 3 "Liturgique" [9 Tracks]
  • Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
  • Johann Strauss: Walzer & Polkas [Germany]
  • Christmas Adagio: Karajan
  • Holst: The Planets; Elgar: Enigma Variations
  • Wagner: Tristan & Isolde
  • Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
  • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite; Sleeping Beauty Suite; Nutcracker Suite
  • Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica,Op. 53; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Lohengrin
  • Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Wagner: Music from Der Fliegende Hollander & Parsifal
  • Schubert: Symphony Nos. 3 & 4; Rosamunde
  • Schubert: Rosamunde Overture/Symphony Nos. 5 7 6
  • Romance
  • Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
  • Mozart: Symphony Nos. 40 & 41
  • Mozart: Symphony Nos. 38 & 39
  • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41
  • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29, 35 "Haffner" & 36 "Linzer"
  • Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K297b / Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77
  • Karajan Intermezzo
  • Karajan Conducts Beethoven
  • Carl Maria Von Weber: Der Freischutz' Overture/Franz Schubert: Symphony Nos. 1 and 2
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
  • Brahms: Tragic Overture; Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Symphony; Anton Bruckner: Symphonie 8
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto
  • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5
  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 2
  • Mendelssohn: Symphonies, Nos. 3 & 4
  • Strauss: Don Quixote; Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
  • Verdi: Requiem
  • The Beethoven Box
  • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
  • Wagner: Lohengrin
  • Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [Excerpts]
  • The Vienna Years, 1946-49
  • Verdi: Aida [Highlights]
  • Tosca [Highlights]
  • Summer Adagio: Karajan
  • Opera Arias
  • Mozart: Symphonie 33; German Dances; Schubert: Symphonie 9 "The Great"
  • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro Overture; Clarinet Concerto Symphonie 39
  • Mozart: Horn Concertos; Quintet, K 452
  • Karajan: Waltzes & Polkas
  • Karajan Conducts Italian Opera
  • Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss: Waltzes and Polkas; Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek: Donna Diana Overture
  • Herbert von Karajan Conducts Brahms, Mozart, R. Strauss
  • Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "An die Freude"
  • Beethoven: Symphonien 5 & 8; Mozart: Adagio & Fugue; Divertimento 17 - Adagio
  • Mozart: Requiem; Laudate Dominum; Exsultate, Jubilate
  • Morning Mood: Romantic Moments
  • R. Strauss: Don Quixote; Horn Concerto No.2
  • Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1 - 3; Orchestral Suite 3
  • Mozart: Requiem in D minor; Great Mass in C minor; Missa brevis in C major
  • Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Highlights]
  • Strauss: Don Quixote; Schumann: Cello Concerto
  • Wagner: Tannhäuser
  • Wagner: Parsifal
  • Von Karajan Conducts Dvorak, Wagner, Mozart, Cherubini
  • Verdi: Requiem
  • Verdi: Messa da Requiem; Bruckner: Te Deum
  • Verdi: Il Trovatore (Highlights)
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
  • Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
  • Roussel: Symphony No4; Balakirev: Symphony No1
  • Puccini: La Bohème
  • Opera for Pleasure: Beethoven's Fidelio (Highlights)
  • Offenbach: La gaîté parisienne; Chopin: Les Sylphides; Delibes: Coppélia
  • Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
  • Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5; Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Mozart: The Last Six Symphonies, Volume 2
  • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 "Haffner", 40, 41 "Jupiter"; Zauberflöte Ouverture
  • Mozart: Last Symphonies Vol.3
  • Mozart: Last Symphonies Vol.1
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni
  • The London Years 1948-1960
  • Kodaly: Suite/Bartok: Music/Concerto
  • Karajan: The Beginning of a Legend (Box Set)
  • Karajan: His Legacy
  • Karajan: Early Recordings 1938-46
  • Karajan Spectacular
  • Karajan Rarities
  • Karajan Edition - Sibelius: Symphonies, Nos. 6 & 7 Etc.
  • Karajan Edition - Sibelius: Symphonies, Nos. 4 & 5 Etc.
  • Karajan Edition - Schumann: Piano Concerto Etc.
  • Karajan Edition - Britten/Vaughan William/Stravinsky
  • Karajan Edition - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Etc.
  • Johannes Brahms: Klavierkonzert No. 2; Tragische Ouvetüre
  • J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4 - 6
  • Herbert von Karajan (Testament)
  • Haydn: La Création [Extraits]
  • Grieg: Concerto pour piano; Peer Gynt
  • Face to Face with Beethoven
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 2
  • Brahms: German Requiem
  • Brahms: German Requiem
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 "Pastorale" [1962]
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8
  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
  • Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
  • Arias, Overtures and Intermezzi
  • Jean Sibelius: Symphonien Nos. 4 - 7; Der Schwan von Tuonela; Tapiola
  • Wagner: Lohengrin
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony 4; Romeo & Juliet
  • Webern: Passacaglia; Schoenberg: Variations, Op. 31; Berg: Lyric Suite
  • Wagner: Parsifal
  • Wagner: Overtures & Highlights
  • Verdi: La Traviata
  • Verdi: Il Trovatore
  • Verdi: Il Trovatore [Salzburg 1962/Gala]
  • Verdi: Falstaff
  • Tchaikovsky: Ouverture solennelle "1812"; Nußknacker-Suite; Slawischer Marsch; Capriccio Italien
  • Strauss: Kaiser-Walzer
  • Strauss: Die Fledermaus
  • A Portrait of Herbert von Karajan
  • Mozart: Krönungsmesse; Bruckner: Te Deum
  • Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
  • Karajan In Vienna: Mozart - Symphony No. 33, Strauss - Metamophosen
  • Joh. Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion - Arien & Chöre
  • Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte
  • Herbert Von Karajan - The Maestro
  • Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
  • R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
  • Verdi: Requiem
  • Liszt: Les Préludes; Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2, 4 & 5; Hungarian Fantasia
  • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 83 "Hen", 101 "Clock", 104 "London"
  • Panorama: Richard Wagner, Vol. 2
  • Verdi: Requiem Mass; Bartok: Music Sz106
  • Verdi: Il Trovatore [Salzburg 1962/Opera D'Oro]
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Finlandia; Valse Triste
  • Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Till Eulenspeigel; Don Juan; Salomes Tanz
  • Radetzky March: Marches & Polkas
  • Prokifiev: Symphony No. 5; Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
  • Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Dvorák: Slavonic Dances; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
  • Karajan Conducts Tchaikovsky
  • Verdi: Messa da Requiem [1949]
  • Haydn: The Seasons
  • Invitation to the Dance: Ballet Music
  • Bach: St. Matthew Passion; Mass in B minor
  • Beethoven: Symphony No.7; Haydn: Symphony No.104
  • Wagner: Overtures & Preludes [DVD Audio]
  • Verdi: Otello
  • Verdi: Aida [Highlights]
  • Verdi: Aida
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6; Romeo & Juliet
  • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
  • Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète; Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
  • Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 4, 5 & 6; Karelia Suite
  • Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
  • Overtures & Intermezzi
  • Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro [Highlights]
  • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35, 40, 41
  • Mozart: Requiem KV 626 [1961 recording]
  • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
  • Lalo: Symphonie espagnole; Sarasate: Gypsy Airs; Massenet: Meditation from Thais
  • Karajan: Maestro Nobile, Disc 5
  • Karajan: Maestro Nobile, Disc 4
  • Karajan: Maestro Nobile, Disc 3
  • Karajan: Maestro Nobile, Disc 2
  • Karajan: Maestro Nobile, Disc 1
  • Johann Strauss II: Waltzes and Overtures
  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
  • Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
  • Bach: Passio Secundum Matthaeum
  • Bach: Matthäus Passion, BWV 244
  • Richard Strauss: Tone Poems
  • Puccini: La Bohème
  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
  • Wagner: Ouvertures & Préludes
  • Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Verdi: La traviata
  • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex; Bruckner: Te Deum
  • The Karajan Collection (Box Set)
  • Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
  • Haydn: The Seasons (Highlights)
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
  • Beethoven: Sinfonia No. 3 "Eroica"; Leonore III, Overture
  • Brahms: 4 Symphonies [1977 & 1987/89]
  • Karajan Conducts Vivaldi & Bach
  • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9; Smetana: The Moldau
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 9
  • R. Strauss: Zarathustra; Don Juan; 4 Last Songs, etc.
  • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, 41; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Serenata notturna
  • Ravel, Debussy, Saint-Saëns: Orchestral Works
  • Brahms: A German Requiem
  • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
  • Invitation to the Dance
  • Brahms: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Triple Concerto
  • Wagner: Die Meistersinger
  • Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival (1964-1979)
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6
  • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni
  • Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  • Maestro Nobile, Vol. 2, Disc 5
  • Maestro Nobile, Vol. 2, Disc 4
  • Maestro Nobile, Vol. 2, Disc 3
  • Maestro Nobile, Vol. 2, Disc 2
  • Maestro Nobile, Vol. 2, Disc 1
  • Karajan Forever: The Greatest Classical Hits
  • Karajan Conducts Grieg & Sibelius
  • Herbert von Karajan: Maestro Nobile, Vol. 2
  • Famous Overtures
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [1962]
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 [1963]
  • Bach: Mass in B minor; Brahms: Four Serious Songs; Two Recitals
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Piano Concerto
  • Bach: St. Matthew Passion
  • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Franck: Variations symphoniques
  • Bizet: Carmen [1954]
  • The Best of Herbert von Karajan
  • Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tannhäuser, Tristan
  • Verdi: Falstaff
  • Sibelius: Finlandia; Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
  • Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
  • Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung [1965 Recording]
  • Brahms: A German Requiem
  • The Best of The Magic Flute by Mozart
  • The Best of Hänsel & Gretel by Humperdinck
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  • Bizet: Carmen [1995 Live]
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 8; Mendelssohn, Nicolai, Wagner, Weber: Overtures
  • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5
  • Recomposed by Matthias Arfmann
  • Bizet: Carmen [1955]
  • Mozart: Great Mass in C minor; Adagio and Fugue for Strings
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 83; Mozart: Symphony No. 40 KV 550
  • Bizet: Carmen
  • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake Ballet Suites
  • Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan; Wagner: Tannhäuser - Venusberg Music
  • Strauss: Don Quixote; Ein Heldenleben; Symphonia Domestica
  • Strauss-Walzer
  • Sibelius: Symphony Nos. 4 & 7; Finlandia
  • Sibelius: Finlandia; En Saga; Valse triste; Karelia Suite; The Swan of Tuonela
  • Philharmonia Promenade Concert
  • Mozart: Symphony Nos. 38 & 39; Bassoon Concerto K.191
  • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 "Jupiter"; Oboe Concerto
  • Mozart: Symphonies 33 & 39; Eine kleine Nachtmusik
  • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24
  • Johann Strauss, Josef Strauss: Waltzes & Polkas
  • Britten: Bridge Variations; Handel: Water Music; Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia
  • Brahms: Symphony No 4; Schumann: Symphony No 4
  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Triple Concerto
  • Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
  • The Anthems Album
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; En Saga
  • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor [1955 Live]
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale"; Symphony No. 8
  • Bach: Magnificat; 3 Motets
  • Puccini: Madama Butterfly
  • Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K297b
  • Joseph Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten
  • Herbert von Karajan: The Columbia Golden Years
  • Adam: Giselle
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
  • ReComposed: The Original Recordings
  • Brahms: Violin concerto, op. 77 / Beethoven: Triple concerto, op.56
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 "Pathétique"
  • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps; Bartók: Konzert für Orchester
  • Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
  • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
  • Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 [7 Tracks]
  • Opera Intermezzi
  • Mozart: Requiem
  • Karajan: The Music, The Legend [CD + DVD]
  • Karajan 2008 [CD+DVD+Bonus CD]
  • Holst: The Planets
  • Herbert von Karajan 100th Anniversary Edition
  • Debussy: La Mer; Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2; Bolero
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 2; Schubert: Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'
  • Brahms, Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
  • Beethoven: Symphonien Nr. 3 "Eroica" & 4
  • Beethoven: Fidelio
  • Mozart: Divertimenti K. 247, 251, 287 & 334
  • Beethoven: Triple Concerto
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Piano Sonatas Nos. 18 & 32
  • Beethoven: Fidelio
  • Beethoven: Fidelio [1957 Salzburg Festival]
  • Haydn: 6 Paris Symphonies; 12 London Symphonies
  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
  • Virtuose Violinkonzerte
  • Verdi: Requiem
  • Verdi: Messa da Requiem [1954]
  • Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
  • Karajan: The Legendary Decca Recordings, Vol. 8
  • Karajan: The Legendary Decca Recordings, Vol. 7
  • Karajan: The Legendary Decca Recordings, Vol. 5
  • Karajan: The Legendary Decca Recordings, Vol. 4
  • Karajan: The Legendary Decca Recordings, Vol. 3
  • Karajan: The Legendary Decca Recordings, Vol. 2
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2003

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Herbert von Karajan

Famous Overtures

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Are we having fun yet? No. Is the Berlin Philharmonic having fun yet? No. Is Herbert von Karajan having fun yet? If pulling the wings off butterflies is fun, then yes, Karajan is having fun. But do we have to listen to it?

In this collection called Famous Overtures, Karajan and the Berlin romp through 19 of the most famous and most enjoyable overtures in the repertoire. And in nearly every one, Karajan drains all the enjoyment out of the music, leaving only a very, very beautifully played shell in its place. Rossini's La gazza ladra? A bloated bore. Strauss' Die Fledermaus? Shallow and superficial. Rossini's Guillaume Tell? Big, bigger, biggest. Wagner's Parsifal? Dumb, dumber, and dumbest. Suppé's Leichte Kavallerie? Thick and heavy. Mendelssohn's The Hebrides? Thick and greasy. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte? Thick and smarmy. And on and on and on. The Berlin plays like the world's greatest virtuoso orchestra, DG's sound is as good as it gets, and Karajan's conducting is wholly efficient, wholly oblivious, and no fun at all.

Track Listing - Disc 1

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620
1
Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Herbert von Karajan
07:13
2
Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Herbert von Karajan
09:05
Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84
3
Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Herbert von Karajan
08:26
4
Der Freischütz, overture to the opera
Carl Maria von Weber
Herbert von Karajan
10:40
Euryanthe, opera, J. 291, (Op. 81)
5
Overture
Carl Maria von Weber
Herbert von Karajan
09:07
6
Oberon, overture to the opera
Carl Maria von Weber
Herbert von Karajan
08:36
7
The Hebrides, overture for orchestra in B minor ("Fingal's Cave"), Op. 26
Felix Mendelssohn
Herbert von Karajan
10:49
Parsifal, opera, WWV 111
8
Prelude
Richard Wagner
Herbert von Karajan
14:17

Track Listing - Disc 2

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time
Guillaume Tell (William Tell), opera
1
Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Herbert von Karajan
12:04
2
Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Gioachino Rossini
Herbert von Karajan
10:02
La Traviata, opera
3
Prelude
Giuseppe Verdi
Herbert von Karajan
04:15
La forza del destino, opera
4
Overture
Giuseppe Verdi
Herbert von Karajan
07:57
Orphée aux enfers, operetta
5
Overture
Jacques Offenbach
Herbert von Karajan
09:47
Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts
6
Barcarolle (as arranged by Manuel Rosenthal in "La Gaieté parisienne")
Jacques Offenbach
Herbert von Karajan
03:39
Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry), operetta
7
Overture
Franz von Suppé
Herbert von Karajan
07:41
Pagliacci, opera
8
Intermezzo
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Herbert von Karajan
03:48
Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act
9
Intermezzo sinfonico
Pietro Mascagni
Herbert von Karajan
03:35
10
Die Fledermaus (The Bat), overture to the operetta (RV 503-1)
Johann Strauss II
Herbert von Karajan
08:18
11
Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron), overture to the operetta
Johann Strauss II
Herbert von Karajan
07:24
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