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Title: Over the hill and egotistical camera work
Review: Nobody can beat Herbert von Karajans' CD recordings of the Beethoven symphonies (1963) for quality of sound and performance in that era. I believe the 1963 CD's are still among the very best recordings of the Beethoven symphonies.The DVDs' made more recently are difficult to watch. Von Karajan looks like a corpse on the podium. The camera shows him in static positions. I haven't viewed the entire set but from what I've seen the orchestra may as well be in another room since they are not shown in the videos.AMAZON needs to learn the way of listing classical music performances. There is NO existing standard which includes the phrase "...staring...conductor, singer, etc." STARRING!? This isn't a movie or television program, not theatre. It is classical music in performance. The correct terms include well known things such as "conductor" "________Orchestra/Symphony" "Soprano" etc. There is no such thing as "STARRING" in classical music.
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