29 AUGUST 1998, page 31

A Goal Pursued And Scored

Michael Tanner HERBERT VON KARAJAN: A LIFE IN MUSIC by Richard Osborne Chatto, £30, pp. 851 T his is a most impressive achievement, if not exactly the one its author intended.......

Transcending A Small World

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy LIFE REGAINED: DIARIES, 1970-72 by Frances Partridge Weidenfeld, £18.99, pp. 288 T wo years ago the writer Paul Binding decided to take 'English Diaries'......

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