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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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04 July

Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”

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

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27 June

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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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 MoserEdvard 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 TchaikovskyRenata TebaldiRené KolloRichard StraussRichard WagnerRobert SchumannRolando PaneraiRolando VillazónSeiji OzawaSena JurinacSergei ProkofievSergei RachmaninoffSpotlightStaatskapelle DresdenStoriesSviatoslav RichterThe European Union Youth OrchestraVienna PhilharmonicWalter BerryWilliam WaltonWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang WindgassenYehudi MenuhinYo Yo Ma

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