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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
* A limited facsimile edition in luxury packaging: LP box with hinged lid in grey linen
* The legendary 1962 recordings, mastered from original ATP files and pressed on eight 180 gsm heavyweight LPs at OPTIMAL.
* 24-page original LP leaflet, and liner notes by Richard Osborne.
THE FAMOUS 1963 KARAJAN BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES
(adapted from Richard Osborne’s brilliant booklet note, attached)
* Karajan recorded the Complete Symphonies of Beethoven no fewer than 4 times for DG, but this first 1963 recording was financially the most daring, artistically the most radical, and commercially the most successful.
* It was estimated that over 100,000 boxes would have to be sold if Deutsche Grammophon’s gargantuan 1.5 million Deutschmark investment was to be recouped. The head of a rival company predicted that Deutsche Grammophon was heading for “a colossal financial catastrophe”.
* By 1973 nearly one million sets had been sold, ten times the original breakeven estimate. 50 years on from its original launch, the set remains the best-selling Beethoven cycle of all time.
* The 1963 Berlin set dazzled like no other, aided in no small measure by the clean, clear, daringly “lit” recordings made in Berlin’s Jesus-Christus-Kirche by the young Gunter Hermanns whose debut as Karajan’s principal recording engineer this was.
* Critics and the record-buying public were enthused above all by the urgency and beauty of the music-making and by a fierce sense of joy which reached its apogee in a thrillingly played and eloquently sung account of the finale of the epic Ninth Symphony.