The ghost of a conductor haunts Vienna's Golden Hall—and it sounds gorgeous.
A triumph of remembrance, wrote Die Welt following this stirring concert given by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Seiji Ozawa and with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist. It left its audience hovering between hushed reverence and deafening exultation. The Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein was the dazzling venue for the live recording of this concert celebrating the 100th birthday of Herbert von Karajan. And there Karajan s Berliner never sounded better, evoking a time which selfconfidently sought the private and subjective in music, and believed it could find them in the mirror of the works (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). It is a concert that commemorates Herbert von Karajan for the ages in a supremely moving manner. Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Bach: Sarabande,br. Seiji Ozawa, Anne-Sophie Mutter
Direction
Ozawa channels Karajan without imitation—pure séance
Cinematography
Golden Hall glows like a cathedral of sound
Acting
Mutter's violin becomes a voice from beyond
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Karajan remains classical music's most controversial deity—Nazi ties, control-freakery, and recordings that outsell everyone. This concert is the Berlin Phil's complicated love letter.
The Musikverein's Golden Hall acoustics are so precise that musicians hear their own heartbeat; Ozawa reportedly refused click tracks here, trusting the room's 150-year-old geometry.
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