A triumph of remembrance, wrote Die Welt following this stirring concert given bythe Berliner Philharmoniker under Seiji Ozawa and with Anne-Sophie Mutter assoloist. It left its audience hovering between hushed reverence and deafeningexultation. The Golden Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein was the dazzling venue for thelive recording of this concert celebrating the 100th birthday of Herbert von Karajan.And there Karajan s Berliner never sounded better, evoking a time which selfconfidentlysought the private and subjective in music, and believed it could findthem in the mirror of the works (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). It is a concertthat commemorates Herbert von Karajan for the ages in a supremely moving manner.
