New vinyl LP release of Dudamel conducting Mendelssohn - The Boston Globe
25 May 2012, 7:00 am
Above all, there was a surprising yet unmistakable sense of connection between Dudamel and the conductors who graced the covers of so many classic records in the past — karajan, Abbado, Bernstein, among others. Such is the mysterious power of vinyl.

Ken Russell – patron saint of European composers - Spectator.co.uk
22 May 2012, 3:58 am
I may be sticking my neck out if I say that the films of the late, great Ken Russell did more to broaden the audience for classical music than Herbert von karajan and Leonard Bernstein rolled into one. Still, I’ll risk it. The stories simply itching to ...

You Wanted This Man To Sing To You - The New Yorker
21 May 2012, 3:04 pm
He had been drafted into the Wehrmacht when he was a teen-ager, but he never joined the Nazi party as von karajan, Bohm, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf did. There was an ethical component in his dedication that was impressive without being stuffy or stiff.

Fischer-Dieskau: ‘You have to be tough’ - Arts Journal
21 May 2012, 4:42 am
Schiller went on to rebuild Deutsche Grammophon, signing the unrepentant Nazi pin-up Herbert von karajan as label star. She, too, was tough. Six decades on, Fischer-Dieskau spoke her name with a wary respect.

Claudio Abbado’s Return to Berlin - Counter Punch
18 May 2012, 1:35 pm
Abbado took over as director of the orchestra in 1989 when Herbert van karajan died not exactly in the stirrups, but having just dismounted from a rehearsal of Un ballo in maschera in Salzburg. The choice of Abbado as his successor came as great ...

Pavarotti manager Herbert Breslin dead at 87 - YAHOO!
17 May 2012, 11:52 pm
They were introduced by Terence McEwen of London Records when Pavarotti was the cover singer for Carlo Begonzi for a Carnegie Hall performance of Verdi's Requiem with conductor Herbert von karajan and the orchestra of Milan's Teatro alla Scala. Breslin ...

Music, leadership - and growth - Nation - Thailand
17 May 2012, 12:17 pm
Private jet? Yacht? Castles? This multi-millionaire had them all, and much more. What's so surprising? It is that the gentleman, Herbert von karajan, was an orchestra conductor, and such a job, although glamorous, does not pay much usually. He made his ...

My Favorite Records: Ruth Bader Ginsburg - The New Yorker
15 May 2012, 11:44 am
Strauss, “Der Rosenkavalier”; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Teresa Stich-Randall, Otto Edelmann, Eberhard Wächter, Ljuba Welitsch, Nicolai Gedda, Herbert von karajan conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (EMI). Tchaikovsky ...

Authenticity’s real appeal - Financial Times
11 May 2012, 10:19 pm
This culminated in Norrington’s vibrato-less performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at the 2011 Proms, no more historically informed than the romantic excesses of Herbert von karajan. Harnoncourt is prepared to admit that Mozart’s Magic Flute is a ...

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro – the best recording - Gramophone
1 May 2012, 4:51 am
Freni, the Susanna for Varviso and Davis, pops up again in karajan’s 1974 performance from Salzburg. José van Dam and Tom Krause are powerful antagonists, but the stars here are Frederica von Stade, an ardent Cherubino, and Elizabeth Harwood’s dignified Countess.