The other night the Salzburg Festival has honored the memory of Herbert Von Karajan -- 2008 is the maestro's centenary -- with Ein deutsches Requiem, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Today's Corriere della Sera, in a full-page essay about the special concert, explains that Riccardo Muti had asked the audience not to applaud at the end of the performance to show their respect for the departed Austrian maestro.
Corriere calls the performance "enormously moving", dark and tight, accomplished "with supreme technique"; a testament to the mutual admiration between the two men (it was Karajan who asked young Muti, barely thirty years old, to conduct Don Pasquale in Salzburg, something Muti has not forgotten to this day, saying a few days ago in an interview with Il Giornale: "Abbado, Mehta, Ozawa and I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Karajan for all his essential help at the beginning of our careers").