Herbert von Karajan
Playlist by hph
Beethoven Symphony #5 in c minor, Op.67, Movement 1, Herbert Von Karajan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcPs1bC1cI8
Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 – Karajan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Les39aIKbzE
Herbert von Karajan Dvorak Simphony n. 9 “Aus der Neuen Welt”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmsesSde-o
1965 Mozart, Clouzot, Karajan, Menuhin K219 Rondeau Tempo di
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnr5bG7OAM
Mozart Concerto for Three Pianos – Eschenbach Franz Karajan (Paris 1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YABKTQVDwuI
Herbert Von Karajan – Adagio de Albinoni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8TkBM5DeHM
Strauss – Voices of Spring- Battle, Karajan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0sjS92tkNI
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
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Check this out. This tiny lady is fantastic! …At least watch the first movement. …Oh another sleepless night and I have to get up early in the morning!
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hph, If I wake up and can’t go back to sleep , I never check what time it is…sometimes I pick up my book and go upstairs so not to disturb GO..
Also warm milk with honey might help, no blogging late at night…it’s also better if the book is not too exciting… 🙂
My best trick is to do the old yoga class relaxation routine, going through all the body parts, all the fingers and toes , eyebrows………zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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The book! You are right… If there is a book with a title ‘The Politics of Tony Abbott and His Merry Men plus One Woman’ I should get a copy. During the day I can use it as a door-stopper. I am sure it has many other uses as well. …Oh! there is one. If you have a fireplace, each page can be a fire-starter on cold winter mornings.
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That’s it, H, I’ve got a few points to add; no alcohol within the last three-four hours before sleep if you can help that. Reason is that while alcohol helps you to drop off to sleep, when your body metabolises it, the metabolites can wake you up, say a couple of hours later. Dark bedroom helps, quiet bedroom helps (tough when I snore and wake FM up – sometimes good to give her a break and sleep in the spare room for the rest of the night). Air quality is important – we do need some fresh air, but not when it drops the temperature below 12 degrees C. Too hot is also bad – best sleep temperatures are below 24 degrees C. Strangely, research has also indicated that a tidy bedroom is better than sleeping amongst chaos. Have a shot at some of these, hph.
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http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/09/classicalmusicandopera.austria
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Wonderful, hph, many thanks. If Von Karajan is a Greek, a communist, a Nazi doesn’t matter, it’s the music that does….
As for Wagner, a good friend took GO and I to our first opera, The Ring by Wagner, I enjoyed every second of it…
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I thank you, Helvi.
He, too, was a perfectionist and knew how to extract the best out of an instrument player
🙂
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Thanks for reminding me, Algy, I have a collection of all of Beethoven’s symphonies conducted by Karajan, they are all just a click of the iPod away….
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Big M, pay attention young man, it’s not Alge’s list , it’s by hph.
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Sorry, H, and hph, I musta dozed orff!
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No problem Big M. I took Mike’s advice the other day and now I doze orff to Brahms’ lullaby 🙂
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Credit must go to hph here Big M. I would struggle putting a classical list together. However watch this space, a little treat in store soon.
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Algernon, I like listening to classical music but I am hardly knowledgeable in this area. I probably know as much as you do; I may hear one particular piece dozens of times, yet, still, I wouldn’t know the name of the composer or the artist and the title. What interests me, amazes me and what I appreciate mostly is the talent and the skills of the people who are involved in music. To me there is no difference between Jimmy Page and Yehudi Menuhin (violinist) or, between Amy Winehouse and Joan Sutherland for example. As I am getting older and older I intend to listen to the music of many more artists, before I start losing my hearing. These days I can’t hear the mosquitoes landing on my ear anymore.
🙂
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hph I’d be in the same boat on the recall and lstening but reckon I’d still struggle with a list. And agree with you on the rest of your comments here.
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Give me The Ride of The Valkyries anytime.
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Those Valkyries know how to ride, don’t they?
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Became real when I saw Apocalypse Now.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It has the smell of victory!
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Oh, oh, oh, sir, sir, sir!
“Charlie don’t surf!”, sir
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or, as in Blues Brothers,
one nazi to another, as they are falling down, “I Love You”
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What!!? No Wagner!!? Gott im Himmel!! The old Nazi Von Karajan would be turning in his grave.
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/12/vienna-professor-karajan-lied-lied-and-lied-again-about-his-nazi-past.html
But none the less he was prodigiously talented and that talent was nowhere more on show that the work he did on the works of Wagner
Of course there always has to be a little deconstructing humour to balance the deep gravity well of awefulness that was the psyche of Wagner. His wearing of women’s silk underwear is a forgivably hilarious foible compared to his antisemitism and misogyny. So here goes…..,
What were Woglande, Wellgunde and Flosshilde doing in the water? They were performing Gene Kelly’s ‘I’m Singing in the Rhine’.
— Frank Muir
I have been told that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
— Bill Nye
‘Parsifal’ is the kind of opera that starts at six o’clock. After it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6.20.
— David Randolph
Herr Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
— Gioacchino Rossini
and there’s plenty more where that came from…
…..but I do love Tristan and Isolde.
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The 6:20 joke is a pearl, hph. Cheers ,
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G,
It is true that he has never apologised for his Nazi past. My intention, here at PA, was to present his talent in music. Not his politics.
Well, we can always listen to his music and have a conversation in politics at the same time.
Born in 1908, witnessed the first war between 6 and10, became a Nazi member at the ripe age of 26.
In my opinion, he was swept into Nazi ideology (so were hundreds of thousands of Germans, young and old) in the hope of finding a collective way out of a national misery during, what was described as, a very turbulent period in German history after the First World War.
The £22billion reparations were set at the Treaty of Versailles by the Allied victors-mostly Britain, France and America- as compensation and punishment for the 1914-18 war. Hatred of the settlement agreed at Versailles, which crippled Germany as it tried to shape itself into a democracy following defeat in the war, was of significant importance in propelling the Nazis to power.
After the end of the Second World War, the allied victors did not repeat the same mistake again in Germany (and in Japan.) They invested heavily in German economy to create a stable democratic nation, but before that -and you will not read this in any history books- Americans starved thousands of Germans to death. The exact numbers are unknown today. (In Japan, they did the same, but there weren’t many Japanese civilians left to starve after the genocidal fire bombing of the cities just before the end of the war.)
At least, Karajan was not like one of those Nazis who worked willingly in the service of The United States after the war. Those who did were rewarded by Americans for their outstanding achievements in the development (and in the manufacture) of the US rocket & missile technology/Industry, and also, for finding new methods of torture in the interrogation of French and Latin American communists.
Ya Gotta’ Love them Yankees
…of course, by that, I mean the ruling class.
So, Karajan made history in music.
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I good looking conductor with a great head of hair.
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One good looking …..
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Most of the Nazis were good looking 🙂
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…except for the ugly ones!
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..yes, but they were the minority… 🙂
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Hitler, Goering…..
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