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1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages)
Includes excerpts from "Guillaume Tell," "Die Meistersinger," Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Schubert's "Unfinished" symphony, and footage filmed between 1933 and 1943.
Overture to Guillaume Tell / Rossini (Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra ; Max von Schillings, conductor ; 1933 or 1932) (9:37) -- Die Meistersinger / Wagner (Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra ; Leo Blech, conductor ; 1933) (7:52) -- Die Meistersinger and Act III finale / Wagner (Karl Böhm, conductor ; Wilhelm Rode (Hans Sachs) ; unidentified orchestra) (10:32) -- The forces in the German soul (0:46) -- Die Meistersinger / Wagner (Prussian Staatskapelle ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor ; 1941) (9:31) -- Die Meistersinger / Wagner (Berlin Philharmonic ; Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor ; 1942) -- Ninth symphony. Fourth movement / Beethoven (Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor ; Tilla Briem, Gertrude Pitzinger, Helge Rosvaenge, Rudolf Watzke, soloists ; Bruno Kittel Choir ; Berlin Philharmonic ; 1942) (4:42) -- Ninth symphony. Fourth movement / Beethoven (Berlin Philharmonic ; Hans Knappertsbusch, conductor ; Erna Berger, Torsten Ralf, others unknown, soloists ; Bruno Kettel Choir [sic] ; 1942 or 1943) (4:27) -- Unfinished symphony / Schubert (Berlin Philharmonic ; Clemens Krauss, conductor ; 1943) (1:08) -- Die Meistersinger / Wagner (Festival Orchestra ; Hermann Abendroth or Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor ; 1943) (1:50)
Footage filmed between 1933 and 1943 in Germany.
Includes a 16-page exposé: "Music in the Third Reich," and biographies of the performers by Frederic Spotts.