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10 May

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...

11 April

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...

04 April

Karajan artists: Yehudi Menuhin – superlative violinist and conductor

Yehudi Menuhin wasn’t a frequent artistic partner of Karajan’s. But the two men knew each other well and reflected ...

28 March

Spotlight von Einem: The piano concerto

It is well known that Karajan was a responsible mentor for musicians and singers who were younger than he was. Equally well documented is...

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