Sugao No Karayan Ni Ju Nen Go No Saikai (Gentosha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] Herbert von Karajan was the greatest conductor of the 20th century. The author, who gained the great conductor's trust through an interview in 1973 and has served as his interpreter and secretary ever since, tells the true face of the maestro. He was shy and reserved, but became talkative when talking about opera, laughed a lot at meals, packed his luggage in a surprisingly neat and orderly manner, and sometimes expressed his weakness on the phone in the middle of the night. Why was he misunderstood as a "perfectionist music businessman"? A record of Karajan as we first met him.

二十世紀の大指揮者ヘルベルト・フォン・カラヤン。一九七三年のインタビューを機に彼の絶大な信頼を得、以後、通訳兼秘書を務めた著者が語る巨匠の素顔。シャイで口数少ない一方で、オペラの話になると多分に饒舌、食事のときはよく笑い、荷物のパッキングは驚くほど整然として、時に夜中の電話で弱音を吐く…。なぜ彼は「完璧主義の音楽ビジネスマン」と誤解されたのか?初めて出会う人間カラヤンの記録。