Solti - The making of a maestro DVD 1997 A portrait / Directed by Peter Maniura / ArtHaus Musik - Sir Georg Solt, one of the greatest conductors

UPC 4006680102382

REGION 2,5 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: Dolby 2.0

SUBTITLES: French, Spanish, English

TOTAL RUNTIME: 93 minutes

English Summary:

The Making of a Maestro is a documentary that looks at the influential conductor Sir Georg Solti (1912–1997). Few other figures in the 20th century can claim to have stamped their authority on their field with such gusto as Solti, who will long be remembered – thanks to both his exceptional recordings, and the numerous interviews in which he comes across as both informative and entertaining. Producer Peter Maniura paints a portrait of Solti at various different stages of his international career. The famous conductor was to pass away just weeks before the first broadcasting of this documentary on English television in 1997. Solti was in his 85th year.

Sir Georg Solti, KBE (ˈʃolti; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-born British orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being of Jewish background he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.

Sound

JOHN PRITCHARD

DICK MANTON

Dubbing Mixer

CHRIS BURDON

NIGEL POWELL

Cameras

ANDREW GODFREY

JIM FYANS

PETER DUBOVITZ

GUNTHER WEBER

Production Manager

CLAIRE SMITH

Unit Manager

SUSAN DUNFORD

Producer for Hungarian TV

AGNES BARSONY

Director of Photography

COLIN CASE

Series Editor

GILLIAN GREENWOOD

BBC Omnibus

Produced and Directed by

PETER MANIURA