Herbert von Karajan: Documentary Portrait of the Conductor Legend | With Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and complex geniuses, dominated the post-war classical music world like a colossus. At the same time, his ambitious, ambivalent personality, and particularly his troubling career history with the Third Reich cast a shadow on his reputation.
This film reveals the phenomenon of the man and his music while touching on inspiring, but also controversial, and troubling aspects of his career. It is Karajan himself, in archive interviews, who talks of events in his life and relates them to his work as a conductor. Featuring performance excerpts of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00:00 - Intro: A Genius & His Influence
▷ 00:01:27 - Karajan's Childhood & Beginnings
▷ 00:10:40 - Career under Nazi regime, NSDAP membership & rivalry with Furtwängler
▷ 00:15:38 - Richard Strauss & World War II
▷ 00:17:55 - Meeting Walter Legge: Development of Recording Career & Philharmonia
▷ 00:24:38 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony: Karajan on Film
▷ 00:31:49 - Berlin Philharmonics Conductor for Life & Artistic Director of Vienna Staatsoper
▷ 00:33:30 - Milan, Controversies & Reflections on Conducting
▷ 00:41:28 - Salzburg's Großes Festspielhaus & Strauss's Rosenkavalier
▷ 00:47:33 - Berlin Philharmonic, Science & Innovation
▷ 00:52:42 - Bringing Music to Children & Karajan's own childhood influences
▷ 01:02:19 - Strauss's Alpine Symphony
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Karajan won unprecedented musical power and public acclaim; received far more adulation, sold far more records, and made more money than any other classical musician of his era. He also had many detractors - those alienated by his superstar status; those repelled by his headstrong ambition and endlessly demanding pursuit of his artistic ideals; and those for whom he was forever tainted by the shadow of the Third Reich. Yet his musical playboy image was at odds with the private man who was a shy, often solitary figure, possessed of great directness, simplicity and wit, and was deeply loyal to his closest associates. Charismatic and enigmatic, Karajan was also the construct that was ‘Karajan’.
Herbert von Karajan’s life, both on and off the podium, is charted. From the influential experiences of his childhood and student days; through his emergence as a young conductor with a reputation for being brilliant but difficult; to his years at the forefront of classical music; and his last decade when, despite failing health, and being beset by acrimonious musical politics, he continued to push himself to the limits of his creative and physical powers.
The documentary also touches on the controversial issue of Karajan’s membership of the Nazi Party; his rivalry with Furtwängler; his fitful association with Walter Legge of EMI and with the Philharmonia Orchestra, founded by Legge in 1945; his fascination with science, technology, art and architecture in relation to music and his conducting style and rapport with his musicians. All are brought into focus and illustrated with a wealth of archive material.
And throughout the film, there is Karajan’s music, drawn from the many sound and audiovisual recordings he made during the course of his extraordinary career. Extracts from works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Johann Strauss II, Mahler, Verdi, Richard Strauss, and Schönberg testify to the vast range of the classical repertoire he mastered and summon up the sublime beauty of his music-making.
Directed by Gernot Friedel
© 1999, Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution
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❤❤❤Ich hatte die große Ehre ein Autogramm von ihm zu erhalten!!
Wonderful documentary about 20th century's greatest conductor!
A Legend... Which did ''some'' Great Good to Humanity... ☀
( Neuropsychology Research - Autistic Children Foundation - etc. )
Close to other musicians, architects, painters, scientists...
'' Life only exists to make Art possible or to create it " ...☀
A great artist with talent, skills, work, vision & some perspective(s)! ☀
As he went through 2 World Wars & participated in Germany Reconstruction...
( It must have been somewhat difficult to leave behind this incredible life )
Living Experience was his ''motto'' & his major concern/vision...
Admiration & Inspiration - R.I.P. Herbert von Karajan ( 1908-1989 )...☀
Bravo!
FANTASTIC Karajan documentry... but WHO in the world is that unbelievable soprano singing Strauss' Four Last Songs with Claudio Abbado??? (see & hear at: 55:13) ??? Could it possibly be the German soprano Melanie Diener? My Goodness, what an incredibly beautiful and soulful voice! Many thanks again for uploading this pearless documentry. Mike D.
Yeah! She was Melanie Diener in fact. th-cam.com/video/-E6oeFzIRU8/w-d-xo.html
I think that is she, yes. Better than I have ever heard her anywhere.
Yes it is her
th-cam.com/video/-E6oeFzIRU8/w-d-xo.html
Soprano singing Four Last Songs with Abbado is Melanie Diener.
Tres beau film génial chef c est un un génie le plus grand de tous les temps ai eu de la chance d avoir travaille avec lui
Clauderaymond. "...un genie le plus Grand de Tous les temps..."une declaration d'amour je crois, pas d'autore.
le plus grand ou un des plus grand?
What is the intro composition?
Mozart divertimento k334 1st movement
Who is the tenor at 19:09?
Obviously Peter Schreier, THE Evangelist. The following Christ is of course Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau!
Es una pena que estás traducciones automáticas sean tan malas...no podrían mejorarlas...? 🇪🇸🤦😲😔🤦🇪🇸
More powerful than important, what you mean with that?
It’s a metaphor
@@ASclassical nah
Why are all the German names and words so poorly/wrongly pronounced? You would have thought someone would have coached the narrator a bit. I mean "Fertvangler"...
Not just the German names. The narrator even mispronounces the name of the Englishman Walter Legge. Rank incompetence.
@@jasonhurd4379 Yeah; I noticed that - ironically, it's the only time he uses correct German pronunciation.
Grosatig
Von Karajan was a proud national-socialist who never denied his devotion to the ideals of the NSDAP as he joined the party in 1933 even though it was illegal for an Austrian at that time to be a member of the party. This documentary makes a mockery of history. Karajan until his dying breath admired AH and never once apologized for his beliefs.
You lost my interest when you stated that HvK made the first experimental "stereo" recording in 1944. The first successful stereo was recorded in 1934 using the AD Blumlein system with Thomas Beecham and the LPO in 1934 in Abbey Road, London.
For such an inaccuracy the then rest become internet tripe.
von Karajan was more powerful than important musically.
Just a simple observation.
George
@@Titus_J Beecham had it right about Karajan in referring to him as a "kind of musical Malcolm Sargent!" Beecham was none too generous about his English colleague, so it was not much of a compliment!
To this day, I have never found any recording with Karajan which is not easily improved upon musically from someone else. Not to say Karajan was anything other than a good conductor, but rather that he never quite scaled the heights in music. This shows how the enemy of the great is just good.
Good enough? For some people certainly. For me, after more than fifty years buying records of great music in great performances, I still do not own a Karajan disc. I have had a few over the years, but none survived for long with me. I learned to read Gramophone reviews different after a while ...
Best wishes from George.
PS: What part of my initial reply caused you to be so blunt? No real need for it, is there?
You wrong
a matter of taste and level, both of which you obviously donot possess.@@georgejohnson1498
@@user-ki5yb6cu5lGeorge is nearly right. Karajan did make some great recordings they are just few & far between.
Who is Beecham and who are you?
Nobody will remember either of you. Karajan is immortal!
I stopped buying his recordings when I learned of his Nazi Party membership. (Karl Bohm and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf likewise.)
Typical cancel culture mentality lol
Atleast it wasn't ideologically motivated. 😂
If you want to avoid every person who has done something wrong and evil in their life, then there is hardly a single person left to accept anything from.
Come to the sad reality of fallen humanity. Not a single one of us can stand before God!
I don't disagree, but it's actual card-carrying Nazis I draw the line at. @@germanchris4440
If you do so you will have to stop listening to all American and British Artists because of 300 years of slavery and millions of deaths caused. Absolute nonsense!