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LIBRA Music Videorecording 77
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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Marks, Stephany, producer.
Pickering, Mark, producer.
Knussen, Sue, producer.
Gambon, Michael, narrator.
Klemperer, Otto, 1885-1973, conductor.
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 1886-1954, conductor.
Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957, conductor.
Solti, Georg, 1912-1997, performer.
International Management Group.4pro.
British Broadcasting Corporation, producer.
Teldec Classics International, producer.
Sender Freies Berlin, producer.
Films for the Humanities (Firm), distributor.
Series:
Art of conducting.
The Art of conducting
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Conductors (Music).
Conducting--Study and teaching.
Conducting.
Genre:
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 1/2 in.
1/2 in.
Place of Publication:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, Inc., [1994]
System Details:
analog
magnetic
VHS
Summary:
This program focuses on the conducting force and personality of Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Arturo Toscanini, with analyses of their styles by instrumentalists, other conductors, and musicologists.
Contents:
Klemperer rehearsing the Egmont overture and performing Beethoven's Minth
Furtwängler conducting the Meistersinger overture and rehearsing the Schubert Eighth and Brahms Fourth
A comparison of Furtwan̈gler's Beethoven's Ninth with that of Toscanini
Toscanini conducting Beethoven's Fifth.
Participant:
Michael Gambon.
Credits:
Series conceived by Stephen Wright ; commentary written by Stephen Pettitt ; videotape editor, Alastain Mitchell.
Notes:
VHS.
"FFH 4600"--Cassette label.
With commentary from John Eliot Gardiner, Isaac Stern, Jack Brymer, Sir George Solti, Yehudi Menuhin, Oliver Knussen, Suvi Raj Grubb, Hugh Bean, Brian Pollard, Werner Thärichen and Mariss Jansons.
OCLC:
81368004

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