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Spotlight Schoenberg: “Verklärte Nacht”

Karajan naturally interpreted Arnold Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht” not in its original form as a string sextet but in the version for string orchestra...

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Karajan artists: David Bell – Karajan’s man for the queen of instruments

From the middle of the 1970s up to the maestro’s death in 1989 David Bell was Karajan’s favourite organ player. Bell was an EMI assistant producer for Karajan’s “Lohengrin” recording in 1976. When the schedule...

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Karajan artists: Rita Streich – Karajan’s only Zerbinetta

Rita Streich was – like Wilma Lipp and Erika Köth – a singer cast by Karajan in the 1950s and 1960s when he was in need of a coloratura soprano with strong nerves...

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Karajan artists: Kathleen Ferrier – the alto voice from heaven

Karajan’s and Kathleen Ferrier’s collaboration took place in the context of the 1950 “Bachfest”, an event that settled Karajan’s status...

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