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24 OCTOBER 2024

Spotlight Verdi: “Don Carlo”

Karajan told Richard Osborne about the repertoire at his first engagement in Ulm: “I was always grateful to Verdi...”

18 OCTOBER 2024

Spotlight Ives: “The Unanswered Question”

Karajan conducted Samuel Barber’s famous “Adagio for Strings” eight times in concert but there has been no recording of it so it seems that the live recording of Charles Ives’ “The Unanswered Question” is the only piece...

10 OCTOBER 2024

Spotlight Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”

Being more or less official chief conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra London during its very first years, it was obvious that Karajan would be conducting some British music...

19 SEPTEMBER 2024

Spotlight Beethoven: “Fidelio”

Regarding the importance Beethoven had for Karajan, it is no surprise that his only opera was a cornerstone in the maestro’s repertoire...

6 SEPTEMBER 2024

Spotlight Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra op. 31

The interpretation of Arnold Schoenberg’s “Variations for Orchestra” op. 31 was one of Karajan’s most ambitious and consistent recording projects ever. Richard Osborne called it no less than...

23 AUGUST 2024

Spotlight Haydn: the “Paris” and “London” symphonies

Karajan recorded the two complete sets of the “Paris” and the “London” symphonies in the early 1980s...

4 JULY 2024

Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”

“Der Rosenkavalier” was the first original collaboration between Strauss and the Viennese author Hugo von Hofmannsthal...

27 JUNE 2024

Spotlight Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons”

Antonio Vivaldi’s best-known work is one of the most popular in classical music. It is a set of four violin concertos with the programmatic title “The Four Seasons”...