Fritz Reiner conducts Handel (vaimusic.com)
BackFritz Reiner Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from "Solomon" (Handel) 1954 Telecast from: VAI DVD 4237 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Historic Telecasts: Fritz Reiner, Paul Hindemith, Leopold Stokowski TO BUY THE COMPLETE VIDEO, GO TO www.vaimusic.com OR CALL TOLL-FREE IN THE US 1 (800) 477-7146 (OUTSIDE OF THE US, CALL 914-769-3691.)
Channel: Music
Uploaded: April 15, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Author: vaimusic
Length: 0:04:10
Rating: 4.81
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Tags: Fritz Reiner Handel Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Video Comments:
olabeethoven (Sunday 9th of November 2008 05:11:40 PM)
complètement dépassé mais très beau !
fedtrooper (Thursday 24th of July 2008 10:04:32 PM)
Supposedly Reiner conducted with a very small beat that frustrated players who could not see the stick moving. One guy with the CSO was fired when he brought a telescope to a rehersal and yelled "I can't see the beat."
themouseofevil (Monday 25th of August 2008 06:04:56 PM)
Yeah, I think that maybe for the telecasts he didn't want people to know or something.
Leibo07 (Sunday 25th of May 2008 01:41:42 AM)
I find it rather unbelievable how 'modern' i.e. agile and lean this sounds!
A discovery.
anthk (Monday 31st of March 2008 06:57:32 AM)
Fritz Reiner conducted the orchestra well, he and his musicians played Arrival of the Queen of Sheba with a lot of arragements of dynamic.This is one of the best editions I have ever heard,brilliant.
fiestanoob (Friday 14th of March 2008 04:53:57 PM)
i agree, a quartet would be good
unripe42 (Saturday 8th of March 2008 08:55:10 PM)
This is one of those "weird" things about orchestra conductors that non-musicians have trouble with. Even though I'm a former musician I still don't quite understand how it works, but Reiner is a "Germanic Tradition" conductor. It's a style of conducting where the conductor is about one to two beats ahead of the orchestra. Perhaps a better student of classical music than me could explain it but that's the most I know about it.
Leibo07 (Monday 24th of March 2008 05:13:17 AM)
He was actually a Hungarian and studied with Béla Bartók. But one might say that his conducting resembled, in some sense or other, Klemperer's style.
GolumTR (Saturday 26th of January 2008 08:24:01 PM)
The simplicity is the whole thing with Handel. That was very rare with baroque composers. Ask Mozart, Beethoven, or his contemporary and admirer Old Bach. He writes so simply and so unpretentiously that one simply feels the piece no matter what one's mood towards it is.
GolumTR (Saturday 26th of January 2008 08:30:43 PM)
feels the point feeling and nature of the pice, damn! I need to revise these before sending!