Herbert von Karajan, the internationally acclaimed conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, has stepped down from that powerful position after 34 years, citing frail health.In a letter to ...

Herbert von Karajan, longtime conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and one of the most powerful musicians of the 20th Century, died Sunday near Salzburg, Austria, where he was born. Mr ...

Under Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic became perhaps the most celebrated orchestra in the world. Philadelphia was smooth; Berlin was smoother. Chicago was powerful and daringly ...

Karajan's concerts were banned in Detroit and picketed in New York. Philadelphia Orchestra director Eugene Ormandy refused to shake Karajan's hand when the Berlin Philharmonic toured the U.S. in 1955.

For 60 years the role of the renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during the period of Nazi power has remained in obscurity. In Hitler’s Third Reich the orchestra was known as the ...

Jeff Spurgeon: Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan, who has had perhaps the greatest influence on the orchestra as it is today. He's credited with the signature sound of the Berlin Philharmonic. He ...

When I saw that the Berlin Philharmonic had thrown open the doors to its virtual concert hall the thing that most interested me was to see some Karajan. When I was a child in the mid-1980s I lived for ...

Alex Ross writes about the Berlin Philharmonic’s failure to pick a new chief conductor, ... Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, and, since 2002, Simon Rattle, who will step aside in 2018.

The Philharmonic’s burnished sound and plush legato strings, honed in the mid-to-late 20th century under conductor Herbert von Karajan, are both the stuff of legend and a still-audible link to ...

The Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall marks its 15th anniversary, ... and Herbert von Karajan's radio recordings, featuring mostly previously unreleased material, ...