LITTLE DRUMMERBOY

Documentary

 

A TV-Essay on Gustav Mahler by and with Leonard Bernstein including excerpts from Mahler's symphony and song cycles

 

Leonard Bernstein

 

STEREO: PCM / SURROUND: DTS 5.1 · Picture Format: 4:3

Subtitles: German/English/French/Spanish/Chinese

A production of UNITEL, Munich

 

Leonard Bernstein pays tribute to Gustav Mahler in The Little Drummer Boy

 

This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth

 

The essay, recorded in Israel, Vienna and later in London, is punctuated by biographical interludes and illustrated by musical examples drawn from the cycle of Mahler’s works recorded by Leonard Bernstein

 

Bernstein talks, plays and conducts various orchestras (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker) and soloists (Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp, Walton Groenroos) in performances spanning 17 years

 

Leonard Bernstein examines the roots of Gustav Mahler's inspiration – features music from the nine symphonies, The Song of the Earth and the Wunderhorn Cycle

 

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