Spotlight Blacher: Five orchestral works
Boris Blacher was – together with Orff – the contemporary German composer Karajan performed most often but...
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Spotlight Mahler: The Ninth Symphony
It is a well-known fact that Karajan’s engagemant with Mahler was an episode. Unlike other great symphonic composers, Mahler wasn’t regularly on Karajan’s programmes...
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Spotlight Verdi: “Don Carlo”
Karajan told Richard Osborne about the repertoire at his first engagement in Ulm: “I was always grateful to Verdi...”
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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...
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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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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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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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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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Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”
“Der Rosenkavalier” was the first original collaboration between Strauss and the Viennese author Hugo von Hofmannsthal...
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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”...
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