Great Conductors: Carlos Kleiber / Georg Solti / Leonard Bernstein / Herbert von Karajan [4 DVD set]

 
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Great Conductors: Carlos Kleiber / Georg Solti / Leonard Bernstein / Herbert von Karajan [4 DVD set]
Carlos Kleiber, Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, with Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Stephen Sondheim, and more

[ C Major DVD / 4 DVD Box Set ]

Release Date: Tuesday 20 February 2018

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

This impressive four-DVD set features four documentaries that revolve around the lives and careers of four of history's finest conductors. The first is "I Am Lost to the World," a documentary about Carlos Kleiber, that includes several musical excerpts conducted by Kleiber. The second is "Journey of a Lifetime," which focuses on Sir Georg Solti. The film includes interviews with Valerie Solti, Valery Gergiev, and more. "Larger Than Life" revolves around Leonard Bernstein, and includes interviews with his children and other music giants like Stephen Sondheim and Gustavo Dudamel. Finally, "Maestro for the Screen," is about the life of Herbert von Karajan and shows the fascinating development of Karajan's language for filming orchestral productions and starts with the very first concert production in 1957 in Japan, followed by the impressive cooperation with director Henri Georges Clouzot in 1965 to Karajan's own film company Telemondial.

SOUND FORMAT: PCM 2.0

Mastered from an HD source

PICTURE: 16:9

Bonus DVD 2: NTSC 4:3

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 324 mins

Contains:
DVD 1 Carlos Kleiber - I am lost to the World
DVD 2 Sir Georg Solti - Journey of a lifetime + Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
DVD 3 Leonard Bernstein - Larger Than Life (prizewinning Documentary)
DVD 4 Herbert von Karajan - Maestro for the Screen + Karajan conducts Berliner Philharmoniker

"In some musical ways a miracle, in other personal ways a monster, Kleiber was the greatest conductor of our age. Orchestral players explain his hold over them, and there is an electrifying rehearsal sequence from Tristan in Bayreuth." The Observer on the Solti