Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video: The New Year's Eve Concert 1987

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Summary: Get the Carlos Kleiber
Review: This concert is one that I would have liked to attend. A living leyend in the most celebrated concert of the year. This concert is just great, there is no doubt that even though Herbert Von Karajan was pretty old when he directed the concert, he did not lose his special spell while directing. The DVD has extra information about the composer and all the masterpieces played in this concert. About the repertory, what can I say? It seems that they chose the best of the best music by Strauss so that it could be played all at the same concert with such a leyend directing. Also, another highlight is that Kathleen Battle sings the waltz "Voices of Spring" ("Frühlingsstimen"). Her lovely voice illuminates the whole event even more. The only bad thing of it -to me personally- is that in my favorite waltz "The Emperor Waltz" ("Kaiser-Waltzer") the orchestra is not shown playing, instead they show a beautiful performance of dancers while the music plays -which is beautiful- All in all, the whole performance is fabulous and you will be surprised of many things that you will see when you buy this DVD, because I'm sure that you will buy it!!!!!.

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Summary: The Best of the Best
Review: This concert is one that I would have liked to attend. A living leyend in the most celebrated concert of the year. This concert is just great, there is no doubt that even though Herbert Von Karajan was pretty old when he directed the concert, he did not lose his special spell while directing. The DVD has extra information about the composer and all the masterpieces played in this concert. About the repertory, what can I say? It seems that they chose the best of the best music by Strauss so that it could be played all at the same concert with such a leyend directing. Also, another highlight is that Kathleen Battle sings the waltz "Voices of Spring" ("Frühlingsstimen"). Her lovely voice illuminates the whole event even more. The only bad thing of it -to me personally- is that in my favorite waltz "The Emperor Waltz" ("Kaiser-Waltzer") the orchestra is not shown playing, instead they show a beautiful performance of dancers while the music plays -which is beautiful- All in all, the whole performance is fabulous and you will be surprised of many things that you will see when you buy this DVD, because I'm sure that you will buy it!!!!!.

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Summary: New Year's Party
Review: This is one of the best DVDs from "Hebert von Karajan Legacy for Home Video" series. Apart from the beautifull music there are several (good) surprises as the orquestra plays the famous Strauss's partitures. This is probably the only video that shows Karajan laughing, smiling and interacting with the audience. The musicians and the public also seem to be very pleased with this party .