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Classic Video : Beethoven Symphony #5 Submitted by Jason Quintana on Thu, 2008-06-12 01:18.
This is a really astonishing video of Herbert von Karajan (with what I assume is the Berlin Philharmonic in the early 1960s) conducting Beethoven's 5th. It is really a landmark both because of the amazing performance of the music and the excellent directing and cinematography.
Enjoy. - Jason
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Movements 1 &
Movements 1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhcR1ZS2hVo&eurl=http://www.solopassion.c...
3 & 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDar-ycF5fE&eurl=http://www.solopassion.c...
- Jason
Jason...
could you please post just the link for me to click on? These embedded versions aren't showing up on my screen - sometimes they do sometimes they don't. Pest.
Karajan
" "There's this wonderful joke," violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter says,
"where apparently Karajan landed in Berlin, and he took a cab and the
cab driver asked him, 'Where to, maestro?' And he answered, 'Oh, it
doesn't matter. They need me everywhere.'" "
It is a good joke, but it is also a true statement. Unfortunately there was only one of him, and he no longer exists. No one promotes classical music like this anymore. There are no longer any major star figures with this kind of persona.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the majority of the artistic class shuns the sort of egoism that Karajan (and other great musicians of his era) personified.
- Jason
Magnificent thanks Jason
"There's this wonderful joke," violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter says,
"where apparently Karajan landed in Berlin, and he took a cab and the
cab driver asked him, 'Where to, maestro?' And he answered, 'Oh, it
doesn't matter. They need me everywhere.'"
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.- - Robert Green Ingersoll
Magnificent!
Masterly from start to finish. Great find, Jason!