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Title: Homogenised Legato Soup from the Kitchens of Herbert von Karajan
Review: The reason why DG re-released this 1963 recording of the Mozart Requiem on the Originals is simple - it has the magic name on the cover: Herbert von Karajan. Intrinsically, it is worthless. It's slow, heavy, and afflicted by an opague recording. Just listen to the end of the Kyrie; there is no granularity whatsoever to the playing of the Berlin Philharmonic: it's a tsunami of soup. The Tuba Mirum actually sounds like an offcut from Gotterdammerung. Stylistically, this travesty of a performance is the old school at its most dreary.Karajan went on to record this piece to much better effect in 1976Mozart: Requiemand 1986Mozart: Requiem / Tomowa-Sintow, Müller Molinari, Cole, Burchuladze; von Karajan. He progressively becoming faster over time to the benefit of the music. The latter recording is superb.Unless you're ravenous for some thickly textured soup, don't bother with this. It's almost Herbie's worst recording.
