Karajan artists: Gottlob Frick – improvising Wagner
Gottlob Frick was a basso profundo at the Vienna State Opera in the 1950s and 60s who performed no fewer than 88 times with Karajan...
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Karajan artists: Jean Cocteau – the poet as the speaker
No wonder Karajan was fascinated. Jean Cocteau was one of the last universal artists, a poet, painter, actor, filmmaker and stage designer. There was simply no one in Parisian artistic circles...
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Karajan artists: Dennis Brain – the superlative horn player
Dennis Brain was the Fritz Wunderlich of the horn – Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc and Paul Hindemith composed works for him. Brain was principal horn player of the...
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Karajan artists: Edwin Fischer – a generous pianist
The Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer was one of the most distinguished Bach, Mozart and Beethoven interpreters of his generation. Born in 1886, he was 22 years older than Karajan. Their first joint concert...
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Karajan artists: Martha Mödl – the ultimate Klytämnestra
For Karajan Martha Mödl was an indispensable singer in the 1950s and 60s. She worked with him at almost every crucial stage of his career after the war...
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Karajan artists: George London – Karajan’s first Count on record
George London was one of the singers who had an intensive working relationship with Karajan at the Vienna State Opera during the latter’s management of the institution (1957 – 1964)...
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Karajan artists: Wilma Lipp – first mother then daughter
Wilma Lipp made her debut as an opera singer at the age of 17, became a member of the Vienna State Opera at 20, had her breakthrough as “Queen of the Night” at 23 and recorded the opera with Karajan when she was...
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Karajan artists: Montserrat Caballé – the last diva
Karajan and Montserrat Caballé met only on a few occasions but the maestro impressed her deeply. When asked about him in 2008 (Karajan’s centenary) the singer...
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Karajan artists: Henri-Georges Clouzot – a great (concert) film maker
Henri-Georges Clouzot was one of the best-known film-makers in French cinema, internationally acclaimed for films like...
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Karajan artists: David Bell – Karajan’s man for the queen of instruments
From the middle of the 1970s up to the maestro’s death in 1989 David Bell was Karajan’s favourite organ player. Bell was an EMI assistant producer for Karajan’s “Lohengrin” recording in 1976. When the schedule...
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