If a standard bearer like Herbert von Karajan suffices, Spotify has all four of his complete cycles.

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Richard Osborne wrote the book Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music.

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In classics, it has the great Universal Classics catalog, meaning recordings by artists like Herbert Von Karajan, Maurizio Pollini, the Emerson String Quartet, and other best-in-the-world acts.

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The findings are in harmony with what conductors knew all along: that baton-toting despots, like the late Herbert von Karajan, do add value but only if they rein in the uppity musicians in front of them.

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With the help of his handlers in New York, he has learned how other classical musicians developed and exploited their star power, how Horowitz and Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan and Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma took the extra steps that provided more celebrity and greater fees.

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