Columbia SAXO 2294: Karajan's Opera Intermezzi Revisited
COLUMBIA SAXO 2294 Herbert von Karajan Conducts Opera Intermezzi Philharmonia Orchestra Herbert von Karajan, conductor Australian pressing, blue/silver label Matrix numbers: YAX 243-15, 244-1 Back in 2013, when this blog was still in its infancy, I wrote a very brief and not so positive review of the UK Columbia release of this album. I may have been turned off by the musical program, which was less dramatic and less "sonically stunning" than some of the other recordings I was listening to at the time. I didn't keep the album. Fool's folly. Eleven years later, I found this Australian pressing ($13 USD) of the recording with the blue/silver label and what appears to be UK stampers (even a -1 for side 2!). I've managed to acquire a few Australian SAXO pressings and have been hard pressed to find any sonic differences between these and their UK counterparts. Some were actually packaged in UK outer sleeves, while others such as this one were issued in sleeves that we
