Post by darkehmen on Feb 5, 2008 9:20:55 GMT 1
One of my favourite HvK anecdotes is described in Osborne's Conversations with Von Karajan. Osborne asks:
I find that a wonderful vignette, and an absolutely marvellous idea. What a pity that the scene wasn't filmed and included as a part of the Unitel Bruckner 8th video from said church.
In Karajan's Telemondial film of the performance of Mozart's Coronation Mass from the Vatican,
one of the most stirring moments is when, after the mass, the camera shows Pope John Paul II descending into St. Peter's tomb beneath the high altar.
A similar scene showing Karajan silhouetted in the darkness of the vault where Bruckner's tomb is located, then emerging to conduct the Eight Symphony, would have made a solemn visual, and a moving tribute to the composer by his greatest interpreter.
RO: Is it true you were once locked into the vault under [St. Florian's] church with Bruckner's coffin?
HvK: No, no, not locked! But I was taken to the vault before a concert in the church...The idea was that I should be I the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct.
HvK: No, no, not locked! But I was taken to the vault before a concert in the church...The idea was that I should be I the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct.
I find that a wonderful vignette, and an absolutely marvellous idea. What a pity that the scene wasn't filmed and included as a part of the Unitel Bruckner 8th video from said church.
In Karajan's Telemondial film of the performance of Mozart's Coronation Mass from the Vatican,
one of the most stirring moments is when, after the mass, the camera shows Pope John Paul II descending into St. Peter's tomb beneath the high altar.
A similar scene showing Karajan silhouetted in the darkness of the vault where Bruckner's tomb is located, then emerging to conduct the Eight Symphony, would have made a solemn visual, and a moving tribute to the composer by his greatest interpreter.