Flexibility or Precision
Description
This program focuses on the conducting force and personality of Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwangler, and Arturo Toscanini, with analyses of their styles by instrumentalists, other conductors, and musicologists, and with footage of Klemperer rehearsing the Egmont Overture and performing Beethoven's Ninth; Furtwangler conducting the Meistersinger Overture and rehearsing the Schubert Eighth and Brahms Fourth; comparison of Furtwangler's Beethoven's Ninth with that of the conductor whom he called a "bloody time beater"-Toscanini; and Toscanini conducting Beethoven's Fifth.
Runtime
1 31 min
Series
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c1994
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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