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25 AUGUST 2023

Spotlight Mahler: The Fifth Symphony

Karajan’s approach to Mahler was a lengthy business. It may have taken so long not only for repertoire reasons but also because of a resemblance between the two men’s biographies...

28 JULY 2023

Spotlight Johann Strauss: “Die Fledermaus”

Karajan’s affinity to the operetta is not generally well-known but its elegance, wit and pure melodical quality was something he couldn’t resist. Of course, his preference in this genre...

20 JULY 2023

Spotlight Sibelius: The Fourth Symphony

Karajan met many contemporary composers whose works he interpreted. That was not the case with Sibelius but the almost 90-year-old Finnish master was able to receive the first Philharmonia recordings...

14 JULY 2023

Spotlight Prokofiev: Two symphonies and a fairy tale

Sergei Prokofiev was born in Ukraine in 1891. His stunning ballets, his passionate solo concertos and his highly original piano music made him one of 20th century’s most popular composers...

6 JULY 2023

Spotlight Holst: “The Planets”

Gustav Holst’s suite “The Planets” is arguably the most popular piece of English orchestral music, alongside Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance”...

22 JUNE 2023

Spotlight Wagner: “Tristan und Isolde”

Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” had a crucial bearing not only on the composer’s life and Karajan’s career but on the history of modern music. There is hardly any other work...

14 JUNE 2023

Spotlight Haydn: “The Creation”

Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” was one of his major works and one of his last masterpieces...

9 JUNE 2023

Spotlight Mozart: piano concertos

Karajan conducted Mozart piano concertos over his career but he concentrated on the Nos 20 – 24 and 27 plus the two works with more than one piano K 365 and K 242...

25 MAY 2023

Spotlight Shostakovich: the tenth symphony

Dmitri Shostakovich and Karajan were about the same age. Karajan admired Shostakovich and he even admitted that if he had become a composer instead of a conductor...