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 never had the slightest intention to be a composer and none of the composers he knew personally...
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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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Boris Blacher was – together with Orff – the contemporary German composer Karajan performed most often but...
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