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I enjoyed this immensely, and I thank you both. I'm looking forward to hearing more

This lecture was absolutely incredible to watch.

🔝🔝🔝🔝Grazie

Ապրի՛ք վարպետուհի Մանտաշեան եւ մաէստրօ Կերշտեյն: Սրտիս ու հոգիիս խորքերը հասաք, յուզուեցայ՝ հակառակ անոր որ տասնամեակներէ ի վեր լսած եմ: Նոյնպէս՝ կը շնորհաւորեմ թէ՛ ձեռնարկը, թէ՛ երկուքիդ տէխնիկական նրբութիւնն ու ցնցիչ մեկնաբանումը: Խնդրեմ՝ թարգմանեցէք մաէստրօ Կերշտեյնին:

Lol @1:03:33 After an hour of non stop flow of brilliant words Callow says "so that's a quick account of the first phase of his career"...🤣

Nice that the Khovanshchina recording by Gergiev I uploaded fulfils its purpose 😄

Disagree on Wagner. It certainly was an important part of the way he thought for at least a while - see Lohengrin and the mentioned Die Meistersinger.

Its the music stupid.

What an amazing two hours.

He failed so hard he directed the single most beloved film the history of cinema

Thank you so much!

The passion is dripping through the screen. Indeed almost like a modern day Bernstein!

Thank goodness Kreisler is not Mozart!!!! Love this new to me pianist brought to my attention by New York Times article- love his unique, playful, slightly jazzy interpretation that makes me smile inside and out! Thank you!

Callow is brilliant - always good when a great actor / director / author enthuses about another great figure.

Fascinating, Pappano explains the music very well, almost like Bernstein.

Heartrending performance, profoundly sad yet breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you.

Wouldn't you love to own a personal library like that, wow! 😮

just a word regarding some of these comments: i don’t believe the title to be derogatory at all and i think Orson would have really enjoyed this talk and would agree with the title - it’s meant to be inflammatory or provocative- both of these men have great love and respect for the man as is obvious with this talk. thank you both - just wanted to put my 2 cents in. those who are angry about the title don’t know orson.

Light touch and exellent rubato. A wonderful interpretation.

Please note this was not arranged by Ferrucio Busoni, but by Wilhelm Kempff

Great, insightful interview.

Thanks - i hope Robert realizes there's many Mozart lovers so happy hearing his music played with ornamented repeats like it should be !

In spite of Callow’s erudition, I find Jonathan Rosenbaum to be a deeper analyst of Welles.

beautiful!

I've tried playing this transcription and it's way more difficult than it sounds. The voicing is almost impossible to get right, for me. Also one needs to keep a steady waltz pulse while using a very flexible rubato. Lines can very easily break apart here, or sound contrived and tacky. Amazing job by Mr Gerstein! 👍

Amazing, dear Kirill. What a refreshing way of listening to this...

Kreisler is not Mozart.

No wonder Callow's biography of Welles has reached 4 volumes, he can talk without pause about him for hours on end from a single prompt

A thousand thanks!

Excelente, saludos desde Uruguay

Grazie! Molto bello e spiegato con chiarezza. Il collegamento dell'interpretazione musicale e del fraseggio alla recitazione teatrale, particolarmente a quella improvvisata, caratteristica sia dei moderni comici che degli attori - improvvisatori della "Commedia dell'arte" rinascimentale è identico a quello raccomandatocda Vincenzo Galilei nel "Dialogo della musica antica e moderna" (1581). COMPLIMENTI!

The people are taking the title WAY TOO SERIOUSLY!!! Simon Callow clearly adores Orson, as do I, as does everyone here in the comments. Simon is looking at the work of a raging genius with a very clear eye. After Ambersons, the rest of the life was full of wonderment but way too much chasing after things the director and star of Citizen should never have had to worry about. And to have only been able to make barely two films in 20 years at the end of his life is a tragedy for all of us.

I could listen to Simon Callow speak for hours on end! Brilliant and affecting. Just magnificent!

Wells’ so-called “Negro” Macbeth was not “dramas from Africa” as this person states … rather it was the true story of Haiti and Haitians and the Haitian Revolution… right? Wells himself famously said there’s no such thing as history, or something like that, because everyone makes stuff up and you weren’t there and I wasn’t there and this guy wasn’t there so how, after all, can we truly know??? Beautiful. It’s no wonder folks said and still say he was a genius. Wells, not this guy.

What an amazing voice that sounds like an angry old man while being magnificent at the same time!

bravo, one of my favorite pieces!!! love your playing !!

👌🏼👌🏼

Whilst I prefer The Flying Lizards' version, this is pretty nice too :)

I don't agree on the Original Pronunciation, I enjoy listening to it and would love to hear a whole performance..it may be that it would help to already know the play quite well though .

Welles didn’t fail on an artistic level, I’m sure Simon would agree with that as he so obviously loves Welles. Welles only mistake was to criticize the elites, in particular William Randolph Hearst in Citizen Kane at the very beginning of his film career. The establishment never forgave Welles for that and he struggled financially there after in his private life and his film projects. Orson survived by being in other people’s films and being in and voicing commercials. He survived against the odds and is still revered today. People like Stanley Kubrick certainly followed Orson’s career and navigated it better than Welles. Kubrick made Dr Strangelove and some how got away with it. Welles did not - those who come first almost always have it hardest.

What a wonderful interview; thanks for posting! Kaija is sorely missed... I believe I saw Aleksi only once, on the day of his sixth birthday, so it's amazing to see what he has done in the intervening years.

Such a poor delivery, I skipped ahead and each time was met with ‘uh uh ah ah’ I don’t get it. I love Orson Welles

Good stuff by gumbo!

This was truly wonderful and fascinating and beautiful in so many ways. But, just out of interest, why was it not conducted entirely on the McNulty fortepiano ? (on the fp we would be able to hear more interesting colours and timbers of the different registers?)

Orson's career brings to mind a great quote from Star Trek. "It's possible to make no mistakes and still lose." Obviously he never failed completely and still continued to make great challenging art even after the Ambersons debacle but one has to wonder how different things would have been if his fortunes with Hollywood didn't sour and he was permitted to continue on the amazing trajectory he began with Citizen Kane. He was the father of all auteur filmmakers and I find myself reflecting on him more and more as the age of the auteur comes to an end and cinema becomes increasingly empty and commercialized.

20:25 And thus Bach invented every pop song chord progression ever.

Extremely interesting and enriching. Thank you so much.

Ik vind het erg 'bonkerig' gespeeld. Weinig subtiel, weinig licht

Yawn

guilt complicated by grief. or perhps grief complicated by guilt