A Leader of Suggestive Power. In the penultimate part of his series on the great Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, Richard Osborne considers questions of politics, power and perfectionism; the nature of Karajan's command of the orchestra; and his often ambivalent attitude to recording. The programme includes part of Karajan's 1943 recording of Brahms's Symphony No 1 in C minor with the Concergebouw Orchestra, plus music by Beethoven, Britten,
Ravel, Rossini, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky played by the Philharmonia, the Turin Radio
Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.