Full Description
In these interviews, completed in Berlin and Vienna in the winter of 1988-89, the interviewer focuses on Karajan the musician and explores his passion for music and his encyclopaedic knowledge of the European scene going back over 60 years.
Contents
Karajan - profile of a musician; conversations with Karajan; the formative years; the Italian connection; Berlin Philharmonic; on conducting; Sibelius, Richard Strauss and the second Viennese school; gramophone and film - the recorded legacy; Karajan and Oxford; Karajan and opera production.