(100 min; 2005; dvd; English)

Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

 

Recorded in the late 60s and early 1970s, Karajan directs the Berlin Philharmonic in an Italiante take on Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony and an assured rendering of the Fifth, while the “Pastoral” Symphony, conceived and directed by Hugo Niebeling in 1967, is a revolutionary mix of styles