The finale – “Karajan Digital Library” Vol. 25

“In a way, the very roots of music are touched on in this work.”
Karajan about Bartók’s “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta”

This is the end and in accordance with the alphabet, it ends with – A. Deutsche Grammophon’s “Karajan Digital Library” started publishing Karajan’s complete recordings for DG and Decca in April and ends this week with three very different types of music. Bartók’s two most popular pieces for orchestra, the “Concerto for Orchestra” and the “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta”, are in it as well as Adolphe Adam’s ballet music for “Giselle” and of course a lot of Bach. The eternal masterpieces of sacred music, the “St Matthew Passion”, the “B Minor Mass” and the “Magnificat” are combined with a lot of concertos – the complete “Brandenburg”, three violin concertos and some excerpts from the orchestral suites.
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—  P.R. Jenkins