Arturo Toscanini conducts Wagner / Idéale Audience ; Pierre-Martin Juban, director.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Juban, Pierre-Martin, film director.

Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957, conductor.

Idéale Audience International, production company.

NBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Orchestral music.

Operas--Excerpts.

Operas.

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (57 min., 28 sec.)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Idéale Audience, [2007]

Language Note:

Vocal selection sung in Italian.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

Fifty years after his death, Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) remains a legendary figures of conducting. For the Italian Maestro, Wagner always held a special status: he inaugurated his first appointment at La Scala in 1898 with Die Meistersinger and made his final public appearance in 1954 with an all-Wagner program. The anti-fascist conductor's affinity for this music was such that he was even asked by Hitler to the lead the Bayreuth Festival, founded by Wagner himself. Toscanini promptly refused and never returned to the Festival, illustrating one of his mottos: "Be democrats in life but aristocrats in art." This programme gathers the best of Toscanini's Wagner performances filmed by NBC television between 1948 and 1951 with restored sound and image. The concert is preceded by a short presentation of Toscanini and his relationship to Wagner

Contents:

Tannhäuser. Ouvertüre / Richard Wagner

Lohengrin. Act III prelude / Richard Wagner

Die Walküre. Ride of the Valkyries / Richard Wagner

Hymn of the nations / Giuseppe Verdi

Tristan und Isolde. Prelude and Liebestod / Richard Wagner.

Participant:

NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Arturo Toscanini, conductor.

Notes:

Wagner recorded 1954.

Verdi recorded 1944.

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tannhäuser. Ouvertüre

Container of: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Lohengrin. 3. Akt. Einleitung

Container of: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre. Walkürenritt

Container of: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Inno delle nazioni.

Container of: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde. 1. Aufzug. Einleitung

Container of: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde. Liebestod

OCLC:

956369338

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.