Techniques of Conducting

Opens with Fritz Reiner conducting the New York Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, with Jascha Heifetz as soloist; Reiner is also seen conducting the Chicago Symphony in Beethoven's Seventh. Also presents Szell in conversation and rehearsing the Cleveland in Brahms' Academic Festival overture, Von Karajan in conversation and performing Debussy's La Mer and Bernstein rehearsing Shostakovich's Fifth and performing the Mahler Fourth Symphony.

More in Art of Conducting Series

  1. Flexibility or Precision 1993
  2. Taming a 100-Headed Dragon 1993
  3. The New American Orchestras 1993
  4. Techniques of Conducting 1994

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