Walter Legge

14 March

Karajan artists: Dennis Brain – the superlative horn player

Dennis Brain was the Fritz Wunderlich of the horn – Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc and Paul Hindemith composed works for him. Brain was principal horn player of the...

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27 February

Spotlight Balakirev: Orchestra works by “The Mighty Five”

It is quite surprising that an extremely fruitful and varied collaboration like Karajan’s with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the studio started with a work outside Karajan’s...

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12 December

Karajan artists: Rita Streich – Karajan’s only Zerbinetta

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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15 November

Karajan artists: Lisa della Casa – Karajan’s Sophie and Marschallin

Regarding the popularity of Karajan’s first “Rosenkavalier” film in 1960 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, it is not generally known that Karajan chose Lisa della Casa...

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