This episode of The Archive presents the conductor Herbert von Karajan. Appointed in 1955 to the lifelong post of music director to the Berlin Philharmonic, he accepted in 1969 to become music advisor to the Orchestre de Paris with whom he built a strong relationship in the space of two years. In 1971, during the recording of the Symphonie Fanstastique by Berlioz, Karajan exceptionally allowed ...
