"[Cavalleria Rusticana:] Bergonzi is a stylish, ardent Turiddu whose virile charms glitter in his every phrase and Fiorenza Cossotto makes a thrilling Santuzza motivated and driven by a palpable conviction; (...) But the real hero of the opera is Karajan, whose direction of this powerful work is magnificent. (…) [Pagliacci:] As the rivals, Carlo Bergonzi and Giuseppe Taddei are superb. Taddei’s sinister, hunch-backed clown, gently forcing the play-within-the-play closer to reality until it finally bursts out violently is a masterly assumption, and Karajan controls the slow build-up of tension with a grasp that few conductors could equal. (…) The third disc is filled by a selection of very rich, very soft-centred opera intermezzos."

Gramophone Good CD Guide

Music writen by Perico Sambeat except "Crazy She Calls Me" by Ben Sigman and Jaff Russell. Spanish alto saxophonist Perico Sambeat, sometimes heard in Britain with Guy Barker or Tim Garland, is a performer with echoes of Art Pepper, Lee Konitz and Eric Dolphy who is none the less an artist of imposing character within a straightish postbop context.

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major (1885 ed. Robert Haas) – Berliner Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 311 MB | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | RS links
Publisher: EMI Classics

‘Glowing' is also an apt word with which to describe this account of the Seventh. Very much sue generis, this is arguably the most purely beautiful account of the symphony there has ever been on record.
Richard Osborne, The Gramophone, 1997

Re-Mastered from the original 1/4 inch tapes thru 24bit 96k Hi-Resolution Transfer