Hallberg-Rassy is a Swedish legacy company. In 1943, Harry Hallberg (1914-1997) established a shipyard in the Swedish fishing village of Ellös, which is idyllically located on the western island of Orust.
[ The Celebrated Man ]
A leading authority on performance practice and performance history, Professor Ryamond Holden AM is the author of The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan for Yale University Press, among other books. Part II examines Herbert von Karajan’s recording career.
In a world that has become increasingly bland and diffuse culturally, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) should act as a beacon of hope for all those aspiring to artistic excellence.
At a time of intensifying geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China, Norway is positioning itself to help supply its Western allies with access to rare earth minerals and natural resources as part of a strategic push to diversify supply chains for critical industries.
On May 31, Norway hosted an informal meeting for NATO Foreign Ministers in Oslo. We discussed the meeting with its principal organizer, Special Representative for Nordic and Baltic Security Policy Øystein Bø.
Silvio Berlusconi served as Prime Minister in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He’s the longest serving Prime Minister in Italy’s post World War II history.
Fiona Maddocks is one of Britain’s foremost classical music critics. We discuss her new book; Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile (Faber, 2023).
Helmut Kohl’s lasting legacy rests on the fact that he’s considered across Germany’s political spectrum to be a great visionary for Europe.
In the third part of our wide-ranging interview with Professor Raymond Holden AM, we discuss Richard Strauss’ (1864–1949) relationship with Nazi-Germany, his collaboration with the distinguished Austrian playwright and biographer, Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), and his Jewish family members.
In the second part of our wide-ranging interview with Professor Raymond Holden AM, we discuss Richard Strauss’s historical legacy as the last preeminent composer-conductor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.