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Flexibility or Precision

This program focuses on the conducting force and personality of Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, 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; Furtwängler conducting the Meistersinger Overture and rehearsing the Schubert Eighth and Brahms Fourth; comparison of Furtwängler’s Beethoven’s Ninth with that of the conductor whom he called a "bloody time beater"—Toscanini; and Toscanini conducting Beethoven’s Fifth. (31 minutes, b&w/color)

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Item#: JOJ4600

DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-6545-5

Part of the Series : The Art of Conducting: The Greatest Conductors of the 20th Century


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