Title: Gloriously Opulent Sibelius
Product review: The damning comment below is totally unjust and unreliable as the reviewer's view is completely clouded and distorted by his own personal dislike of Karajan as a person, that has nothing to do with either the conductor as musician nor content of this CD (what does Karajan's career strategy with Nazis, true or not, have to do with the recording!)Karajan's reading of Finlandia is not a bombastic statement of Finnish nationalism, yet has weight and dignity with much emphasis on bass and the gloriously opulent sound from the orchestra.The other three works are masterfully shaped and vividly captured with imagination. A fine addition to Karajan's Sibelius recordings.
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