No wonder Karajan was fascinated. Jean Cocteau was one of the last universal artists, a poet, painter, actor, filmmaker and stage designer. There was simply no one in Parisian artistic circles...
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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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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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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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