Karajan conducts Tchaikovsky's ballet suites
7 videos • 403 views • by Herbert von Karajan There are a lot of pieces that Karajan only recorded once and never performed live. But it was unusual for him to record a group of works four(!) times and never play them in concert although they are very popular. This is the case with Tchaikovsky’s three ballet suites. He never conducted the great ballets “Swan Lake”, “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” in their entirety but concentrated on the suites, which last about 20 – 25 minutes each, and recorded them with every one of “his” orchestras, the Philharmonia, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, between 1952 and 1982.