Love and Death. To conclude the series on the great Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan,
Richard Osborne tells the story of Karajan's pain-racked and politically troubled final years and explores his lifelong preoccupation with music concerned with love, death, dissolution and transcendence. With excerpts from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Mahler's Symphony No 9, the Barcarolle from Offenbach's rates of Hoffmann and Josef Strauss 's Waltz: Music of the Spheres.
Producer Jeremy Hayes