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The little drummer boy : an essay on Gustav Mahler / by and with Leonard Bernstein ; Humphrey Burton, director ; BBC.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.
- Mahler, Gustav.
- Music appreciation.
- Composers--Austria--Biography.
- Composers.
- Musical analysis.
- Austria.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Internet videos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 25 min.)) : sound, color
- Other Title:
- Essay on Gustav Mahler
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : BBC, [1984]
- Language Note:
- Lecture in English; vocal performances in German; subtitles in English (sung texts only).
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- Gustav Mahler's life and music explained by Leonard Bernstein. In this musical essay, Leonard Bernstein recollects and relives his experiences with the music of the great Viennese composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Bernstein filmed all of Mahler's ten symphonies as well as Das Lied von der Erde and the Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The vocal soloists of these productions, Dame Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp and Walton Groenroos, underscore Leonard Bernstein's elucidations with appropriate music examples. The recordings with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra were made in Tel Aviv, those with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Cathedral of Ely and those with the Wiener Philharmoniker in the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, in which Gustav Mahler himself conducted. The Little Drummer Boy illustrates the fundamental concepts of Leonard Bernstein's interpretation of Mahler's works, and exposes not only the building material and framework of Mahler's brilliant structures, but also the tensional pulls within them. Searching for the musical roots and the hidden truths guiding the composer, Leonard Bernstein discovers the key to Mahler's music in the composer's repressed Jewishness. Starting from the song Der Tambourg'sell (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, written in 1899), Leonard Bernstein spans a broad arch over all the symphonies and concludes with Mahler's last and greatest song, the Lied von der Erde.
- Participant:
- Leonard Bernstein, lecturer and conductor ; with the participation of Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp, Walton Groenroos, Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker.
- Notes:
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Contains:
- Container of: Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Works. Selections
- OCLC:
- 956370108
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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