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The view of the insider

Eliette Mouet was just eighteen years than when they first met Herbert von Karajan in Saint-Tropez. A few months later they met again in London, and from then on it was a great love that inspired the unusual couple for three decades. Eliette von Karajan shared her husband's enthusiasm, she accompanied him to the studio, to the concerts and quickly became the best expert on a comprehensive work whose opulence and stringency to fascinate. On the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Herbert von Karajan, she has now recorded their memories in an autobiography titled My life at his side. And also leaves them with the same double CD a few moments in the studio and in front of audiences reminisce and has created the most personal tribute of the year.

When I think of Herbert and his illustrious career, his many recordings to me, among many opera performances, concerts and of course, said Eliette von Karajan recalls in the notes in the booklet to My favorite recordings and continues: There were concerts without audience in London at Abbey Road studios or at Kingsway Hall, in Berlin in Jesus Christ's church or at the Philharmonic, in Vienna in Sofien hall or music club. More than 30 years I have accompanied Herbert in the recording studio . many of his recordings have since been a permanent place in my life, I have a small selection of them together here.

And of course the view of the insider is different from that of the musicologist or disk manager. In this case it is not a question of providing a representative overview of a body of work or a work section, nor about following thematic standards. The only limitation is the playing time of two CDs so you could create a wonderful individual collocation, one notices the consistency of feelings. Example Beethoven. Herbert and I love to have roamed through the great outdoors. Whenever time permitted, we wandered through the Vienna Woods, near Salzburg, in the Swiss mountains, the sea very close to our house in a brook gurgles Anif that every time I walk along it or ride my bike to the scene by the brook from Beethoven's 'Pastoral' reminds me. Günter Herrmann, excellent manager of numerous recordings Herbert, once told me that Herbert's last recording one of the fastest in the history of interpretation of this Symphony was - to add that you do not get this impression, however, when listening .

Thus Beethoven opens the cycle of pieces, the Eliette von Karajan selected. The path leads past the third movement of Brahms's Third Symphony and Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, the Suite No. 2 of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and the third set of Arthur Honegger's third Symphony, the Adagietto from Mahler Five, and the delirium by Josef Strauss, Herbert von Karajan conducted in 1987 with his single New Year's Concert in Vienna. He heads over to the vocal works to excerpts from Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Mozart's Coronation Mass from Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Wagner's Die Walküre to the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss. The 'Four Last Songs' by Richard Strauss sung by Gundula Janowitz, choose this music palette, which I have compiled in grateful memory of Herbert, in an equally suitable as touching way, Eliette von Karajan comments on the tension they on My life at his side - My favorite pieces has designed.

In April 2008, the ZDF and ORF a documentary entitled Karajan - or the beauty, as I see it be admired, also famous from the perspective of Eliette von Karajan in the life and work of the maestro with numerous archival footage and interviews contemporaries as Anne-Sophie Mutter and Helmut Schmidt sketch. We provide you with the latest news from the world of classical music by German and reviews for Gramophone, Decca, Mercury Classics and ECM New Series. Also on our portal you will find the latest music videos, albums, photos and media as well as concert dates great classical artists and young talents. Our Service provides weekly newsletter with the latest information - free and without obligation.