Spotlight Weber: seven overtures
Carl Maria von Weber was Karajan’s composer for the really important moments. It is astonishing that Weber appears...
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Composers
Spotlight Schumann: The piano concerto
Robert Schumann’s op 54 was the piano concerto Karajan performed most often – 32 times. The pianists he worked with...
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Spotlight Rossini: overtures and string sonatas
Gioachino Rossini was not only one of the first composers Karajan recorded but also one of the first he ever conducted...
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Spotlight Liszt: tone poems
European celebrity, conductor, music promoter, enthusiastic teacher, society darling, style icon, media star switching between public and monastic solitude – there are many aspects...
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Spotlight Wagner: “The Valkyrie”
Richard Wagner’s “The Valkyrie” is a complete opera and also part of the greatest cycle in classical music, “The Ring of the Nibelung”. Karajan’s interpretation of “The Valkyrie”...
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Spotlight Respighi: The Roman trilogy
Karajan was certainly a great conductor for Italian opera. But Italian orchestral music didn’t appear very often in his programmes – particularly if the music...
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Spotlight Monteverdi: “L’incoronazione di Poppea”
Not many conductors in musical history have had a repertoire as broad as Karajan’s. But he is not usually associated with the music of Claudio Monteverdi. In November 1953...
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Spotlight von Einem: The piano concerto
It is well known that Karajan was a responsible mentor for musicians and singers who were younger than he was. Equally well documented is...
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Spotlight Stravinsky: “Le sacre du printemps”
Karajan’s first approach to Stravinsky’s “Le sacre du printemps” came quite late, in 1962. At that time, the piece had been in the repertoire for a long time...
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Spotlight Handel: Concerti grossi, Water Music and others
Karajan isn’t widely thought of as a baroque specialist. Nevertheless, he “had a great if somewhat eccentric fondness for Handel’s music (Richard Osborne).” Early in his career in Ulm...
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