Summary: "Karajan Conducts Tchaikovsky" Herbert von Karajan can be trusted with more than just the great German composers. Karajan’s repertoire of predilection is German post-classical and romantic, but he also excels in late romantic Italian opera (Verdi), Scandinavian (Sibelius) and Russian/Soviet repertoire (Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky). Karajan was unquestionably a great Tchaikovsky conductor. Although he recorded the last three symphonies many times, he did not turn to the first three until the end of the 1970s, and then proved an outstanding advocate. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast305
