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16 MAY 2024

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...

16 MAY 2024

Karajan artists: Helga Dernesch – Brünnhilde, Isolde, Leonore

Helga Dernesch was the most important female singer for Karajan’s great Wagner projects in the period between 1969 and 1973. She appeared as Isolde in “Tristan und Isolde”...

10 MAY 2024

Karajan artists: Krystian Zimerman – still on stage for Chopin

Krystian Zimerman, born 1956 in Zabrze, Poland, is one of the few remaining pianists who worked with Karajan...

10 MAY 2024

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...

18 APRIL 2024

Karajan artists: Hans Hotter – setting standards for Wagner

Hans Hotter was a major figure in Karajan’s Vienna years as artistic director (1956 – 1964)...

18 APRIL 2024

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”...

11 APRIL 2024

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...

4 APRIL 2024

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...