No wonder Karajan was fascinated. Jean Cocteau was one of the last universal artists, a poet, painter, actor, filmmaker and stage designer. There was simply no one in Parisian artistic circles...
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It was really a premiere for Karajan. His first-ever recording with the Berlin Philharmonic and his first ever recording of a symphony...
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Dennis Brain was the Fritz Wunderlich of the horn – Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc and Paul Hindemith composed works for him. Brain was principal horn player of the...
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The Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer was one of the most distinguished Bach, Mozart and Beethoven interpreters of his generation. Born in 1886, he was 22 years older than Karajan. Their first joint concert...
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Karajan performed and recorded more pieces by Ravel than by Debussy, but it both cases he had his favourites while...
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It is quite surprising that an extremely fruitful and varied collaboration like Karajan’s with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the studio started with a work outside Karajan’s...
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Karajan and Renaissance music – this was a rare combination but it did happen. On the occasion of...
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For Karajan Martha Mödl was an indispensable singer in the 1950s and 60s. She worked with him at almost every crucial stage of his career after the war...
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George London was one of the singers who had an intensive working relationship with Karajan at the Vienna State Opera during the latter’s management of the institution (1957 – 1964)...
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Karajan’s commitment to Mahler’s symphonies concentrated on the numbers 4,5,6 and 9 and on the years 1973 – 1982...
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Here you can download the full curriculum vitae of Herbert von Karajan!