Inappropriate Choice Of Conductor ?

This is one of those multitudes of disks that DG put out recycling their back catalogue of Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker. The hook here is a compilation of 19th century central European repertoire from Smetana, Dvorak and Liszt. The pieces are all symphonic tone poems; The Smetana pieces are extracts from Ma Vlast, including the popular Vltava, from Dvorak there is the Scherzo Capriccioso and from Liszt Les Preludes and Hungarian Rhapsody No 4. I'm sure more idiosyncratic versions can be found from Czech bands but the Berlin Phil are always reliable and it fills a hole in my collection. Knowing what I know now and didn't when I bought the disk a few years ago, it is a litle sickly to think of von Karajan playing such nationalistic pieces from Czech and Hungarian sources given his dubious wartime history. Such considerations don't effect the sound of the music though which I guess is the main thing. The only slight disappointment playing wise is a slightly laboured Hungarian Rhapsody.