Karajan artists: Peter Hofmann – Parsifal and rock music
What we turn to is certainly one of the most unusual careers among Karajan’s artistic partners. Karajan cast Peter Hofmann for the title-role in his “Parsifal”...
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Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”
“Der Rosenkavalier” was the first original collaboration between Strauss and the Viennese author Hugo von Hofmannsthal...
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Karajan artists: Anton Dermota – the concert tenor
The lyric tenor Anton Dermota was a member of the legendary “Mozart ensemble” at the Vienna State Opera, an ensemble assembled...
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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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Karajan artists: Yo Yo Ma and Antonio Meneses – Karajan’s cello fellows
They were Karajan’s musical partners in their early years and they are now two great cellists of our time. Yo Yo Ma and Antonio Meneses benefited from Karajan’s intention...
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Karajan artists: Carlo Bergonzi – “a model of style”
The great Italian tenors in the era after World War II – Karajan worked with all of them. Among the giants of this species...
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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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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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Karajan artists: Astrid Varnay – “the burning torch”
Four broadcast recordings, nine performances – Karajan and Astrid Varnay didn’t do all that much together but...
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Karajan artists: Pierre Fournier – the noble cellist
it seems that Karajan enjoyed the collaboration with the great French cellist Pierre Fournier so much that he performed cello concertos exclusively with him...
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