My boot sale purchases are now flat after a few hours in the sun between glass. So the first on the TT was Karajan and the Berlin Phil and Beethoven's 5th.
I like Karajan. There are times when some of the subtleties seem to vanish into the mix a bit but he, never the less, seems to find the heart and soul of the music. I love his versions of Ravel and Shostakovic jazz inspired pieces and of course, the Blue Danube (2001 has etched his version into my brain - what's left of it) So I sat and listened the the 5th. I reckon he got the closest yet but it still failed to hold my attention enough to stop me reading my book at the same time. If it was Bach, Vivaldi, Handel or Jazz, I couldn't do anything else but listen.
I guess I have to just admit that classical or romantic music just doesn't do it for me. I find no direction or purpose to the music and it becomes wall paper. There are a few exceptions to every rule but Beethoven just evades me as does Mozart which is a blow as the other LP I got this morning was the Requiem. I'll see if that fares any better tomorrow. I bought them both as, if anyone was going to convert me, I thought it might be Karajan.
The stall that I got the LPs from also had some Vivaldi on DG but the guitarist was Yepes so my interest was immediately extinguished. How a professional can make the guitar sound so boring I just don't know.
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Originally Posted by jandl100
