The Art of Conducting II: Legendary Conductors of the Golden Era

A 1997 Teldec Classics International production, in association with IMG Artists. Produced by Marcos Klorman, directed by Peter R. Smith. Narrator, Michael Letchford. Most of the audio is in English, subtitles hardcoded.

The Art of Conducting (Legendary Conductors of a Golden Era) has longer portraits of six major conductors of the twentieth century: Sergiu Celibidache, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Erich Kleiber, Willem Mengelberg, Evgeny Mravinsky, and Charles Munch. Also includes rare film clips of Herbert von Karajan, Hermann Scherchen, André Cluytens, and Václav Talich.

Archival footage is complemented by first-hand recollections of these conductors by people who knew them; Yehudi Menuhin, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink. Peter Andry, Alexander Barantschik, Walter Barylli, Otto Edelmann, Vic Firth, Yuri Grigorovich, Bernard Haitink, and Evgeny Mravinsky.

Music Content:
-Herbert Von Karajan - R. Strauss
-Vaclav Talich - Dvorak
-Hermann Scherchen - Kalinnikov
-Andre Cluytens - Ravel
-Evgeny Alexandrovich Mravinsky - Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich
-Erich Kleiber - Beethoven, J. Strauss II
-Willem Mengelberg - Berlioz, Bizet, Weber
-Wilhelm Furtwangler - J. Strauss II, R. Strauss
-Charles Munch - Franck, Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz
-Sergiu Celibidache - Beethoven, R. Strauss, Dvorak

Participants:
- Sergiu Celibidache with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Süddeutscher Rundfunk, and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
- Wilhelm Furtwängler with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Erich Kleiber with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, and the Berlin Staatskapelle
- Willem Mengelberg with the Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Evgeny Mravinsky with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
- Charles Munch with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Hungarian State Orchestra
- Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Václav Talich, Hermann Scherchen, and André Cluytens with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.