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Which conductor do we have to thank for this digital age of SACDs, IPads, BlueRay discs and IPods? Answer: Herbert von Karajan. He played an important role in the development of the CD, and made the first recording to be commercially released in the format. There are all sorts of quasi-religious expressions to describe Karajan: Omnifex Maximus; The Almighty; The Sun King; The Miracle; The Myth - but ultimately he was a man who made music, a musician who had a special gift for extracting beautiful sounds from an orchestra.
This week James Jolly guides us through Karajan's recordings of Beethoven, Johann Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Brahms, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, beginning today with Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Brahms's German Requiem, plus the Building a Library Choice from Saturday's CD Review of Prokofiev's Symphony No.6, a work written as an elegy of the tragedies of World War II.

10.00
Beethoven
Coriolan Overture, Op.62
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 439 005-2

10.08
A. Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor
Hansjurg Schellenberger (oboe)
I Solisti Italiani
DENON CO2301

10.19
Glinka
Grand Sextet
Russian National Symphony Orchestra Soloists Ensemble
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
REGIS RRC1288

10.44
Bach arr. Hess
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata, BWV147: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben)
Dame Myra Hess (piano)
EMI CDH 763787-2

10.48
Bruch
Romance, Op.85
Janine Jansen (violin)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 475 8328

10.57
Brahms
Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (Ein deutsches Requiem)
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Vienna Singverein
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 427 252-2

11.10
Prokofiev
Symphony No.6
The Building a Library choice from last Saturday's CD Review.