Composers

10 October

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...

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19 September

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...

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06 September

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...

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23 August

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

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

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Agnes BaltsaAlban BergAlexis WeissenbergAnna Tomowa-SintowAnne-Sophie MutterAnton BrucknerAnton DermotaAnton von WebernAntonín DvořákAntonio MenesesAntonio VivaldiArnold SchoenbergArthur HoneggerArtistsAstrid VarnayBalletBedřich SmetanaBela BartókBirgit NilssonCamille Saint-SaënsCarl Maria von WeberCarl NielsenCarl OrffCarlo BergonziCésar FranckCesare SiepiChrista LudwigChristian FerrasChristoph Willibald GluckClara HaskilClaude DebussyClaudio MonteverdiComposersDavid OistrakhDietrich Fischer-DieskauDinu LipattiDmitri ShostakovichDocumentaryEberhard WaechterEdda MoserEdith MathisEdvard GriegElisabeth SchwarzkopfEngelbert HumperdinckEvgeny KissinFelix Mendelssohn-BartholdyFerruccio FurlanettoFrancisco AraizaFranco CorelliFranz LehárFranz LisztFranz SchubertFranz Welser-MöstFritz WunderlichGeorge Frideric HandelGeorges BizetGéza AndaGiacomo PucciniGidon KremerGioachino RossiniGiulietta SimionatoGiuseppe TaddeiGiuseppe VerdiGlenn GouldGottfried von EinemGundula JanowitzGustav HolstGustav MahlerHans HotterHector BerliozHelga DerneschHelmut SchmidtHermann PreyHildegard BehrensIgor StravinskyInterviewIrmgard SeefriedJanet PerryJean SibeliusJess ThomasJohann Sebastian BachJohann StraussJohannes BrahmsJohn NeumeierJon VickersJosé CarrerasJosé van DamJoseph HaydnKathleen BattleKathleen FerrierKatia RicciarelliKrystian ZimermanKurt MollLeonie RysanekLeontyne PriceLucerne FestivalLuciano PavarottiLudwig van BeethovenMaria CallasMario del MonacoMaurice AndréMaurice RavelMax RegerMichael HampeMirella FreniModest MussorgskyMstislav RostropovichNicolai GeddaNicolai GhiaurovOttorino RespighiPaata BurchuladzePaul HindemithPeter HofmannPeter SchreierPierre FournierPietro MascagniPlácido DomingoPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyRalph Vaughan WilliamsRenata TebaldiRené KolloReri GristRichard StraussRichard WagnerRobert SchumannRolando PaneraiRolando VillazónSeiji OzawaSena JurinacSergei ProkofievSergei RachmaninoffSpotlightStaatskapelle DresdenStoriesSviatoslav RichterThe European Union Youth OrchestraThomas StewartVienna PhilharmonicWalter BerryWilliam WaltonWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang WindgassenYehudi MenuhinYo Yo MaZoltán Kelemen

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