![]() Listen to the way Karajan builds the Te Deum at the end of Act I, abetted by John Culshaw’s vivid production: you can smell the incense. Has anyone ever lavished such care, sensuality and physical power on this score? And has any orchestra ever played it as wonderfully as the Vienna Philharmonic? Every detail of Puccini’s Technicolor orchestration is there to marvel at. ![]() Karajan, and the resplendent Vienna Philharmonic, hurl those chords out of the loudspeakers, and from that moment his hold never falters. This is Tosca for the Imax screen, no holds barred. ![]() > The first chords lift you right out of your seat. 51KB, 500x500px Giacomo Puccini - Tosca (Karajan) ![]()
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