Symphonies, no. 4, op. 43 Is music dangerous? Beyond the score.
Notes:
Includes a complete performance of the symphony on CD and the video presentation Is music dangerous? (which intersperses narration and recitation with selections from the symphony) on DVD. Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Bernard Haitink, conductor ; Gerard McBurney, narrator ; Nicholas Rudall, actor (on DVD only). Ed. recorded: Sikorski, 1962. Recorded live in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center on May 8-11 and 13, 2008. Compact disc and DVD. Program notes in English, French, and German (20 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Contents of DVD: Bernard Haitink introduces Beyond the score -- Communism is Soviet power -- --Plus the electrification of the whole country -- Building the new -- Parks of rest and culture -- Muddle instead of music -- A pen in the teeth -- The Kremlin mountaineer -- Fathers and children -- Mens sana in corpore sano -- Automata and the absurd -- The funeral -- The rehearsal -- There will be no symphony -- The commissar vanishes -- Special features: Interview with Bernard Haitink ; Interview with Gerard McBurney ; What is Beyond the score ; Exploring the sources ; Biographies.
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