The Salzburg Easter Festival was founded in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan and takes place annually over a period of around ten days between the Saturday before Palm Sunday and Easter Monday. From the beginning, it combined staged opera productions with orchestral and choral concerts within a single, concentrated timeframe.…
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Early in 1977, Anne-Sophie Mutter played for Herbert von Karajan in a private audition. Much has been said and written about this encounter and the collaboration that followed. But this Weekly SpinOn centres on a principle that guided Karajan’s work with Anne-Sophie Mutter from the very beginning: repertoire choice was…
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It is a well-known fact that Karajan’s engagemant with Mahler was an episode. Unlike other great symphonic composers, Mahler wasn’t regularly on Karajan’s programmes...
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Edith Mathis (1938 - 2025) was a Swiss soprano who worked intensely with Karajan in the 1970s. No wonder their collaboration revolved largely...
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