Anne-Sophie Mutter is a musical phenomenon: for more than 45 years the virtuoso has now been a fixture in all the world’s major concert halls, making her mark on the classical music scene as a soloist, mentor and visionary.

Prizes - 1990: MRA Award, London - 1990: Penguin Rosette Award Press Quotes: Recorded the year before he died, this might stand as a spiritual testament to Karajan's relationship with this work. Record Review / James Jolly, Gramophone (London) / 01 December 2005

[the recordings] are rewarding readings of rigour and intensity from a conductor every music lover should know. Record Review / David Mellor, Mail on Sunday / 05 September 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . a 1978 Schubert "Unfinished" with the Vienna Philharmonic is testimony enough to his genius, the first movement (with repeat) initially poised on a nerve's edge, tremulous and full of energy; the second properly relaxed. Kleiber was one of the few conductors to mark a profound climate change between the two movements, and his benchmark performance contradicts the notion that Schubert's Eighth is a mere torso. It has never sounded more perfectly complete. Record Review / Rob Cowan, Independent (London) / 06 September 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The musical strengths are easy to list. Each work -- or, in the case of "Tristan", complete scene -- is a living whole. Complex, richly variegated musical arguments emerge like single, soaring spans of melody . . . If you haven't yet discovered Kleiber, don't hesitate. Record Review / Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01 December 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

金装卡拉扬系列。 这张唱片收录德沃夏克《第九交响曲》和斯美塔纳《我的祖国》。 德沃夏克的《E小调第九交响曲》（自新大陆）灵感源自创业时代的美国，体现了意气勃发的朝气。整部乐曲结构完整，配器丰富，音效丰满，是交响曲这一体裁中口碑极佳的一部伟大作品。四个乐章形象各异，精彩绝伦，均是经常在音乐会上单独演奏的名曲。 卡拉扬指挥的这个版本，不再像柏林爱乐版中那样德国味十足，代之以优雅的维也纳乐风。“企鹅”评价三星保留一星，并得到日本“究极百大”榜单与日本《唱片艺术》名曲三百共同推荐。

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com This is truly a great performance. Bruckner's Eighth demands a sense of occasion, not just because of its length and complexity, but because of its huge range of emotional expression. It's also a work that sounds better the slower it goes (Bruckner is one of the few composers about whom this is generally true), and the secret to a superlative rendition lies in finding the right sense of spaciousness without dragging. Clearly, Carlo Maria Giulini and the Vienna Philharmonic are up to the challenge. The tempos are majestic, but the music presses forward inexorably to huge, brass-laden climaxes. It's all captured in gorgeous sound, too. --David Hurwitz