About this title: Herbert von Karajan was a ruthless narcissist, a relentless egotist, and a hopeless bully. And of course one recognizes that much, if not most, of his recorded legacy is an exquisitely wrought monument to vacuous sonic beauty. That said, one has to admit that von Karajan's recording of Haydn's Die Schöpfung with Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich, Werner Krenn, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Walter Berry, the Wiener Singverein, and the Berlin Philharmonic is beyond all argument the greatest recording of the work ever made. Of course, the singers are all as good as has ever been ...
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