Karajan | Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”

04 July

Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”

“Der Rosenkavalier” was the first original collaboration between Strauss and the Viennese author Hugo von Hofmannsthal...

14 June

Spotlight Weber: seven overtures

Carl Maria von Weber was Karajan’s composer for the really important moments. It is astonishing that Weber appears...

31 May

Karajan artists: Astrid Varnay – “the burning torch”

Four broadcast recordings, nine performances – Karajan and Astrid Varnay didn’t do all that much together but...

24 May

Karajan artists: Pierre Fournier – the noble cellist

it seems that Karajan enjoyed the collaboration with the great French cellist Pierre Fournier so much that he performed cello concertos exclusively with him...

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Philharmonic Berlin Philharmonie Berlioz Bernd Aldenhoff Blumenmädchen Böhm Boléro Boris Blacher Boris Godunov Brahms Brandenburg Concerto Britten broadcast Bruckner Brucknerhaus Linz Brünnhilde Bruno Walter Bulgaria C minor mass Canio Capriccio Carl Maria von Weber Carl Orff Carlo Bergonzi Carlos Kleiber cars cause célèbre Cavalleria rusticana cellists Chopin Christa Ludwig Christoph Eschenbach Christoph von Dohnanyi Christoph Willibald Gluck Clara Schumann classical music classical trumpet concertos Claudio Arrau Claudio Monteverdi Clemens Holzmeister Clouzot collaboration composers concert films concert hall Concertgebouw Orchestra Concerto for Orchestra conducting conductor conductor insights conductor's interpretation Consolations contemporary composers conversations Coronation Mass Count Almaviva crucial moments cultural significance Daniel Barenboim Dantons Tod David Oistrakh De temporum fine comoedia Debussy Delibes Dennis Brain Der Rosenkavalier Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Deutsche Grammophon dialogue Die Fledermaus Die Frau ohne Schatten Dieter David Scholz Dinu Lipatti Documentary Don Carlo Don Giovanni Don Quixote Donna Anna Dresden Dresden Philharmonic Dvořák dynamic range Eberhard Waechter Edinburgh Festival Elektra Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Elly Ney Elsa EMI engineering Epidaurus Erich Kraack Erich Kunz Erik Ernst von Karajan Ernst von Siemens Escamillo European celebrety European Union Anthem Euryanthe overture Falstaff Faninal Fantasia 1940 Ferenc Fricsay Feste Romane Festspielhaus Fidelio Figaro film first conducting Fontane di Roma Four Last Songs Franck Franco Corelli Franz Endler Franz Liszt Fred Hamel Freischütz overture French cellist Friedenstag Friedrich Gulda Fritz Wunderlich funeral requiem Gareth Morris Generalmusikdirektor George Balanchine Gerhard Stolze German Requiem German television Germont Gerty Herzog Gesualdo Ginette Neveu Giuseppe di Stefano Giuseppe Taddei Giusto Cappone Glenn Gould Götterdämmerung Gottfried Hornik Gottfried von Einem gramophone Graziella Sciutti greater structure Grieg Guillaume Tell Gundula Janowitz Günter Rennert Gustav Holst Gustav Mahler Hanna Schwarz Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt Hans Hotter Hans Richter-Haaser Hans Swarowsky Hänsel und Gretel Haydn's Creation Heldentenor Henri-Georges Clouzot Herbert von Karajan Hilary Finch Hilde Konetzni Hilde Rössel-Majdan historical recordings HMV Hugo Shirley Hugo von Hofmannsthal human relationships Hummel Humperdinck Hungarian Rhapsodies hypnosis I due Foscari I Pagliacci Il Trovatore interpretation interview Invitation to Dance Irmgard Seefried Italian Italian opera Italian orchestral music Jacques Thibaud Janet Perry Japanese television Jean-Pierre Ponnelle John Culshaw Joseph Haydn Julia Binek Kapellmeister Karajan Karajan's era Karl Böhm Karlsruhe Conservatory Kathleen Ferrier Kirstin Flagstad Krystian Zimerman Kurt Moll Kurwenal L'incoronazione di Poppea La Bohème La forza del destino La Scala Le sacre du printemps leadership Leipzig Leonie Rysanek Leopold Mozart Les Préludes letters Lied singer Lieder Liège Lisa della Casa live recording living nature Ljuba Welitsch Lohengrin London Lord Snowdon Lübeck Lubka Kolessa Lucerne Lucerne Festival Lucia di Lammermoor Luciano Pavarotti lute songs Madama Butterfly madrigals maestro suggeritore Mahler Marcello Maria Callas Mario del Monaco Mario Petri Mark Zeltser Marschallin Martha Mödl Masetto Maurice André Maurice Ravel Maurice Rosengarten Maurizio Pollini Max Reinhardt media star meditation Meistersinger Mendelssohn mentorship Metropolitan Opera mezzo Michel Schwalbé Milan military officer Mirella Freni Missa Solemnis Monteverdi renaissance Mozart Mozart ensemble Mozart's Requiem Mozarteum Mstislav Rostropovich Munich Murder in the Cathedral music critique music making music promoter music scandal musical innovation musical interpretation musical legacy musical performance Nelson Mass New Year's Eve Concert New York New York Times Magazine Nicolai Gedda nightingale Oberon overture Ochs Ode to Joy open air concert opera opera production Opernkapellmeister Orchestra de Teatro Colón Buenos Aires orchestral challenge orchestral conducting orchestral music orchestral repertoire orchestral work Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Orchestre Radio-Symphonique Orlando di Lasso Osaka Otello Otto Klemperer Otto Strasser Ottorino Respighi Pagliacci Panerai Papagena Paris Parkinson Parsifal Paul Czinner Paul van Kempen Pelléas et Mélisande period instruments Peter Hofmann Peter Schmoll Peter Uehling Philharmonia Orchestra phonograph Pia Bernauer pianist piano concerto piccolo Pierre Fournier Pini di Roma Pizzetti premiere controversy presentation of the silver rose principal conductor prodigy production Prokofiev Radames RAI Orchestra Roma RAI Orchestra Torino Ralph Lawton Ravel recitatives recognition scene record label recording recording collaboration recording cycles recording legacy recording session recording style Régine Crespin rehearsal Renata Scotto Renata Tebaldi repertoire Requiem Rheingold rhythm rhythmic complexity Riccardo Muti Richard Osborne Richard Strauss Richard Wagner Robert Craft Robert Schumann rock singer rococo setting Roman trilogy romantic piano concerto Rubinstein Rudolf Bing Rudolf Streng Ruler of the Spirits sacred works Saint-Saëns Salzburg Salzburg Easter Festival Salzburg Festival Schubert Schumann Seiji Ozawa Semiramide Sena Jurinac Sharpless Shostakovich Shura Cherkassky Sibelius Siegfried Siegmund Sigurd Björling silver tone singer singer-interpreter singing lessons Singverein Slovenia slow movement Smetana snare drum society darling solo trumpeter soloist Sophie South America tour sportsman St Matthew Passion St Moritz Staatskapelle Berlin Stolzing Stravinsky Stravinsky reviews String Sonatas string vibrato studio recordings style icon Sviatoslav Richter symphonic poem symphony Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky competition teacher Telemann television broadcast television clip tenor Teresa Stich-Randall The Barber of Seville the Creation The Flying Dutchman The Four Seasons The Italian Girl in Algiers The Love of Danae The Magic Flute The Marriage of Figaro The Planets The Ring of the Nibelung The Rite of Spring The Silken Ladder The Thieving Magpie The Valkyrie theater Thomas Brandis three ladies Tito Gobbi Toscanini transcription Triple Concerto Tristan und Isolde trumpet player Turiddu twelve-tone work Ulm United Nations Variations for orchestra Verdi Vienna Vienna Conservatory Vienna Musikverein Vienna Philharmonic Vienna State Opera Vienna Symphony viola violin concerto violinist virtuoso viruosity Vivaldi Wagner Walter Gieseking Walter Legge Wieland Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler Wilhelm Kempff William Tell Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Schneiderhan Wolfgang Wagner world tour World War II Wotan Yehudi Menuhin Yo Yo Ma

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