No conductor since Leopold Stokowski had been as interested in the technology of recording as the late Herbert von Karajan. But where Stokowski’s interest in recording was almost purely ...

His response came back: it doesn’t really matter how long a CD is, so long as you can listen to Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 in its entirety, without interruption. Like many others, Karajan had seemingly ...

Strauss: "Die Frau ohne Schatten" Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon With this release, Deutsche Grammophon celebrates two significant centenaries. The performance of Richard Strauss' "Die ...

Herbert von Karajan was born 100 years ago. He made more than 1,000 recordings, and is estimated to have had LP, CD, and video sales in excess of 200 million. He is perhaps best known for his 1962 ...

A six-CD set of Brahms, Bruckner, Wagner and Richard Strauss shows that Karajan was a great Brucknerian, who was equally at home in the very different world of Strauss's Symphonia domestica.

Among the many CD reissues there is a fascinating CD of Karajan’s earliest recordings made between 1938 and 1943. They include some hair-raisingly scrappy Mozart performances by the Turin radio ...

Reviewed are Danilo Perez' Panaman 500, Tori Amos' Unrepentant Geraldines, Punk 45 Vol. 3, and Karajan 1948-1958 (eight-CD collection). ALBUM REVIEWS Danilo Perez, Tori Amos, Punk 45 Vol. 3, Karajan.

A Nazi Party member from 1933 to 1942, Karajan was exonerated by an Allied tribunal after World War II, but his American debut in 1955 at Carnegie Hall precipitated public protests.

Herbert von Karajan) (ICA Classics) The liner notes of this recording of an April 6, 1962 concert refer to it as a "historic" event in British musical life, one that left the audience at Royal ...

Karajan was famous not only for his music, but also his glittering off-duty moments on the ski slopes, piloting his own jet, sailing his yacht and driving top-of-the-range fast cars.