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Documentary charting the way classical music has been presented on television since the 1930s, with contributions from amongst others: Glenn Gould, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Anna Netrebko, Igor Stravinsky and Arturo Toscanini.

Peter Rosen’s 1978 documentary chronicles the wide-ranging talent of Leonard Bernstein with insight from the composer himself. In LEONARD BERNSTEIN: REFLECTIONS, Bernstein gives an intimate look at his life, including his childhood, influences, and artistic efforts. This release includes Bernstein’s performance as conductor with the Orchestre National de France.

One of America's greatest conductors, Leonard Bernstein, is honored with this collection of superb performances. Pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart are included in this boxed set that finds Bernstein before some of the best orchestras in the world, including, of course, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Leonard Bernstein leads the Wiener Philharmoniker in performances of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No.25, recorded live in Vienna in 1987 and 1988.

The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein’s musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein’s most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: “Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first class; as pedagogy they are matchless.” Mr. Bernstein considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel, to Copland, suggesting a worldwide, innate musical grammar. Folk music, pop songs, symphonies, modal, tonal, atonal, well-tempered and ill-tempered works all find a place in these discussions. Each, Mr. Bernstein suggests, has roots in a universal language central to all artistic creation. Using certain linguistic analogies, he explores the ways in which this language developed and can be understood as an aesthetic surface. Drawing on his insights as a master composer and conductor, Mr. Bernstein also explores what music means below the surface: the symbols and metaphors which exist in every musical piece, of whatever sort. And, finally, Mr. Bernstein analyzes twentieth century crises in the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, finding even here a transformation of all that has gone before, as part of the poetry of expression, through its roots in the earth of human experience. These talks, written and delivered when Leonard Bernstein was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, are the newest of the author’s literary achievements. In addition to a distinguished career as conductor, pianist, and composer, Mr. Bernstein is the recipient of many television Emmys for the scripts of his Young People’s Concerts, Omnibus programs, and others, and is the author of The Infinite Variety of Music and The Joy of Music, for which he received the Christopher Award.

Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer star in this Academy Award-winning musical drama adapted from the Broadway stage show. A neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York, provides the setting for a love affair between Tony (Beymer) and Maria (Wood), a young man and woman caught on opposite sides of a gang war. Maria is the sister of Bernardo (George Chakiris), leader of the Sharks, and Tony is the best friend of Riff (Russ Tamblyn), leader of the Jets. The two gangs are sworn enemies, and nothing Maria or Tony can say will dissuade them from the violence which leads to the film's heartbreaking finale. The film won ten Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Score.

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in four separate performances of Sibelius's Symphonies 1, 2, 5 and 7, recorded live at the Wiener Musikvereinssaal between 1986-1990.

Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.

Elia Kazan directs this 1950s crime drama starring Marlon Brando. Ex-boxer Terry Malloy (Brando) becomes involved in corrupt dockside politics through his lawyer brother Charley (Rod Steiger), who works for gangster union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). When Terry witnesses the murder of a union worker by Johnny's thugs, his conscience begins to trouble him. He meets the murder victim's sister (Eva Marie Saint), and learns from Father Barry (Karl Malden) that the dead man was about to expose Johnny's illegal activities. Father Barry then tries to convince Terry to provide the evidence required to put Johnny behind bars. The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Director and Actor.

Invited to conduct a performance to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, Leonard Bernstein leads a multi-national orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, recorded live at the Schauspielhaus on Christmas Day 1989.

Lorin Maazel leads the New York Philharmonic in their first performance in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in February 2008. The show features works by Wagner, Gershwin, Bizet, Dvorak and Bernstein.

Lorin Maazel leads the New York Philharmonic in their first performance in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in February 2008. The show features works by Wagner, Gershwin, Bizet, Dvorak and Bernstein.

(Amadeus). With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an "imaginary conversation" with George Washington entitled "The Muzak Muse," in which he argues the values of actively listening to music by learning how to read notes, as opposed to simply hearing music in a concert hall. The book also features the reproduction of five television scripts from Bernstein on the influence of jazz, the timeless appeal of Mozart, musical romanticism, and the complexities of rhythmic innovation. Also included are Bernstein's analyses of symphonies by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Brahms, a rare reproduction of a 1957 lecture on the nature of composing, and a report on the musical scene written for the New York Times after his sabbatical leave from directorship of the New York Philharmonic during the 1964-65 season.

Leonard Bernstein both conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker and plays piano in this performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No.17 and Symphony No.39, recorded live at the Vienna Musikverein in 1981.

Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts two El Sistema concerts at the 2013 Salzburg Festival. The National Children's Orchestra of Venezuela perform Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, among other works, and the White Hands Choir of Venezuela perform Latin-American folk songs and music by Piazzolla, Mozart and Rutter.

A live recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the English Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra in performances of Bach's Magnificat and Stravinsky's Mass at Saint Augustine's Church, London in 1977. Soloists include Anny Mory, Patricia Parker, Rodney Hardesty and John Mitchinson.

Additional Contributors Are John Latouche And Dorothy Parker.