Karajan - Beethoven The Symphonies DVD 2005 / Berliner Philharmoniker / With Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Jess Thomas, Walter Berry / Deutsche Grammophon

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REGION 0 NTSC DVD (All regions)

Audio: Pcm Stereo, DTS 5.1

Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese

Runtime: 327 minutes

English Summary:

Innovative film technique and the genius of Beethoven combine in this release of a collaboration between Herbert von Karajan and a variety of top video directors featuring some of music's greatest moments. Von Karajan conducts the Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin and the Berliner Philharmoniker as directors Arne Arnbom, Hugo Niebeling, Hans Jaochim Scholz, as well as Von Karajan himself, provide visual accompaniment.

Herbert Ritter von Karajan

Austrian conductor, born April 5, 1908 in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and died July 16, 1989 in Anif, Austria. Younger brother of Wolfgang von Karajan. He was married to Elmy Holgerloef (m. 1938, div. 1942), Anna Maria "Anita" Sauest (m. 1942, div. 1958), and Eliette von Karajan (m. 1958). Karajan and Eliette are the parents of Isabel Karajan and Arabel von Karajan.
His brilliant international career began in 1949 and led him to be one of the most eminent conductors of the twentieth century.
In 1955 he succeeded Wilhelm Furtwängler in the direction of the Berliner Philharmoniker; orchestra that has reached supreme degrees of perfectionism thanks to his tenacity and to his well-known meticulousness combined with a perfect knowledge of the orchestra and the possibilities of the instrumentalists.