How Karajan got his sound

How Karajan got his sound

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norman lebrecht

August 31, 2019

This 1950s clip of Herbert von Karajan rehearsing Schumann’s 4th symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra – where Nikolaus Harnoncourt was principal cello – shows the perfectionism, the precision and the pedantry that went into obtaining the Karajan Sound.

It’s very instructive – not just just for what Karajan does but for everything that Harnoncourt rejected.


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