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Traveling by freighter, he found his way to Italy. Within a couple of years, he had studied with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin and had been named one of Leonard Bernstein's assistants at the New York Philharmonic. At 27, he seemed the embodiment of Japanese musical aspirations when he returned to Tokyo to lead some concerts with Japan's most prestigious orchestra, the NHK Symphony. But his brash ways offended the conservative, prideful musicians. "We won't be bullied by that kid," they declared. In December of 1962, Ozawa stood alone on a podium in front of an ensemble...
Torn between his two lives, Ozawa has sent his wife Vera and their two children back to live in Japan, and he returns to their Tokyo home often. Yet a full-time career in Japan would be too limiting for a conductor mentioned as a potential successor to Karajan in Berlin. Although there have long been predictions of his imminent departure from Boston, Ozawa speaks confidently of his future with the orchestra (his only permanent post). He is, he says, content...
MOZART: Don Giovanni. Samuel Ramey, Don Giovanni; Ferruccio Furlanetto, Leporello; Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Donna Anna; Agnes Baltsa, Donna Elvira; Kathleen Battle, Zerlina; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). Salzburg Recital. Soprano Kathleen Battle, Pianist James Levine...
...Karajan and Mozart were both born in Salzburg, but that seems to be about all they have in common. Karajan's readings of his countryman's ineffable music have always been heavy and rhythmically sluggish, bereft of joy or bounce. His new recording, a warm-up for his production of the opera in Salzburg this spring and summer, never comes to fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan...
...long overdue. The last Met Ring was an unlucky affair directed by Conductor Herbert von Karajan, which began in 1967 with Die Walkure. Karajan had produced only half of the cycle when a labor dispute disrupted the 1969-70 season and he dropped out; the Ring was completed several years later by Director Wolfgang Weber. This current production, designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen and directed by Otto Schenk, is being introduced over three seasons, and will be staged complete...