Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

Movie·1975·2h 48m

Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

Directed By

Humphrey Burton

Country

Austria

Language

English

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The Story

Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wiener Philharmoniker in the mid-1970s when he was at the peak of his career. Humphrey Burton's direction is, as always, very fine, giving the viewer/listener both the larger picture and highlighting individual soloists, players or groups of musicians and, of course, the maestro. The video and audio tracks show their age, but are quite acceptable even for today's standards. Bernstein's Seventh is everything one could desire: dark and spooky, highly sensual, but also structurally strong and assertive where needed. Bernstein's reading does not gloss over breakdowns in tonality and the foreshadowing of later musical developments.

Themes

classical concert

Production House

Deutsche Grammophon

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Cast

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

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Edda Moser

Edda Moser

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Judith Blegen

Judith Blegen

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Gerti Zeumer

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Ingrid Mayr

Ingrid Mayr

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Agnes Baltsa

Agnes Baltsa

Self

Kenneth Riegel

Kenneth Riegel

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Hermann Prey

Hermann Prey

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José van Dam

José van Dam

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Vienna Philharmonic

Self

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Crew

Humphrey Burton

Director

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