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Spotlight Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”

Being more or less official chief conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra London during its very first years, it was obvious that Karajan would be conducting some British music...

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Spotlight Haydn: the “Paris” and “London” symphonies

Karajan recorded the two complete sets of the “Paris” and the “London” symphonies in the early 1980s...

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Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”

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

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Spotlight Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons”

Antonio Vivaldi’s best-known work is one of the most popular in classical music. It is a set of four violin concertos with the programmatic title “The Four Seasons”...

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