Richard Wagner

Spotlight Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra op. 31

The interpretation of Arnold Schoenberg’s “Variations for Orchestra” op. 31 was one of Karajan’s most ambitious and consistent recording projects ever. Richard Osborne called it no less than...

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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 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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Karajan artists: Helga Dernesch – Brünnhilde, Isolde, Leonore

Helga Dernesch was the most important female singer for Karajan’s great Wagner projects in the period between 1969 and 1973. She appeared as Isolde in “Tristan und Isolde”...

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