FACTUAL
Wunderkind!
Saturday 22 March 2008 20:00-21:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Mark Lawson celebrates the centenary of the great conductor Herbert von Karajan, under whose direction the Berlin Philharmonic became a sleek and sophisticated machine producing consistently brilliant performances. Yet Karajan could also be a tyrant, and even his biographer admits that he could be a high-handed bully. He also enjoyed life in the fast lane, with a predilection for fast cars and aircraft which he loved to control with the same supreme skill that he brought to the concert platform.
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