Herbert von Karajan: Documentary Portrait of the Conductor Legend | With Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and complex geniuses, dominated the post-war classical music world like a colossus. At the same time, his ambitious, ambivalent personality, and particularly his troubling career history with the Third Reich cast a shadow on his reputation.
This film reveals the phenomenon of the man and his music while touching on inspiring, but also controversial, and troubling aspects of his career. It is Karajan himself, in archive interviews, who talks of events in his life and relates them to his work as a conductor. Featuring performance excerpts of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier.

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Chapters
▷ 00:00:00 - Intro: A Genius & His Influence
▷ 00:01:27 - Karajan's Childhood & Beginnings
▷ 00:10:40 - Career under Nazi regime, NSDAP membership & rivalry with Furtwängler
▷ 00:15:38 - Richard Strauss & World War II
▷ 00:17:55 - Meeting Walter Legge: Development of Recording Career & Philharmonia
▷ 00:24:38 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony: Karajan on Film
▷ 00:31:49 - Berlin Philharmonics Conductor for Life & Artistic Director of Vienna Staatsoper
▷ 00:33:30 - Milan, Controversies & Reflections on Conducting
▷ 00:41:28 - Salzburg's Großes Festspielhaus & Strauss's Rosenkavalier
▷ 00:47:33 - Berlin Philharmonic, Science & Innovation
▷ 00:52:42 - Bringing Music to Children & Karajan's own childhood influences
▷ 01:02:19 - Strauss's Alpine Symphony

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Karajan won unprecedented musical power and public acclaim; received far more adulation, sold far more records, and made more money than any other classical musician of his era. He also had many detractors - those alienated by his superstar status; those repelled by his headstrong ambition and endlessly demanding pursuit of his artistic ideals; and those for whom he was forever tainted by the shadow of the Third Reich. Yet his musical playboy image was at odds with the private man who was a shy, often solitary figure, possessed of great directness, simplicity and wit, and was deeply loyal to his closest associates. Charismatic and enigmatic, Karajan was also the construct that was ‘Karajan’.

Herbert von Karajan’s life, both on and off the podium, is charted. From the influential experiences of his childhood and student days; through his emergence as a young conductor with a reputation for being brilliant but difficult; to his years at the forefront of classical music; and his last decade when, despite failing health, and being beset by acrimonious musical politics, he continued to push himself to the limits of his creative and physical powers.
The documentary also touches on the controversial issue of Karajan’s membership of the Nazi Party; his rivalry with Furtwängler; his fitful association with Walter Legge of EMI and with the Philharmonia Orchestra, founded by Legge in 1945; his fascination with science, technology, art and architecture in relation to music and his conducting style and rapport with his musicians. All are brought into focus and illustrated with a wealth of archive material.
And throughout the film, there is Karajan’s music, drawn from the many sound and audiovisual recordings he made during the course of his extraordinary career. Extracts from works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Johann Strauss II, Mahler, Verdi, Richard Strauss, and Schönberg testify to the vast range of the classical repertoire he mastered and summon up the sublime beauty of his music-making.

Directed by Gernot Friedel

© 1999, Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution
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