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 ...

The brilliant but controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan was born 100 years ago Saturday. To commemorate the occasion, his record labels have been busy reissuing much of Karajan's vast ...

THE newest and most formidable resident of the Metropolitan Opera is Herbert von Karajan, the celebrated Austrian maestro, who will make his American operatic debut this week with a new production of ...

There are two different approaches these days to writing about the most celebrated living musicians. The first is hagiographical, with the musical sainthood in question arising less from beauty of ...

Something creepy is happening in the world of classical music. It started a few months ago, when a long-forgotten face started to appear on posters in record shops. Soon it spread to billboards and ...

The conductor – who led the Berlin Philharmonic from 1956 to 1989 – is the subject of a new BBC documentary. But he remains an enigmatic figure, whose musical approach sounds a false note in today’s ...

For great conductors—at least for those who make it that far—their ninth decade is often their most magnificent; it is also, alas, their last in which to perform. Toscanini, Monteux, Walter, Stokowski ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Court Stroud writes and teaches about media and entertainment. Danish was so captivated by the possibility of exploring this ...

Herbert von Karajan was quite an anglophile. He spoke the language, though his speech was seldom clear, even in his German mother tongue. He relished being prised from his native Austria to conduct ...

John Bridcut's superb profile surveyed the Salzburg-born Karajan as if he were Mont Blanc or the Matterhorn, considering the contradictions in his character as though studying aspects of the landscape ...

In starting their complete recording of the Ring with Die Walküre DG begin where Decca ended. Their choice enables us to get the measure of Régine Crespin's Brünnhilde and Thomas Stewart's Wotan.