Post by darkehmen on Jan 24, 2008 7:38:45 GMT 1
I was browsing through the ORF TV Sales site this evening, curious to see if they listed any Karajan films in their archives. They have a kind of Karajan microsite (helpfully offered in English as well as German) here:
tvsales.orf.at/karajan_link.htm
If you follow the "Search In This Category" link, you see a list of Karajan's Telemondial films on offer (no hitherto-unseen concerts, unfortunately), and also a description of a fairly recent biopic that I'd only heard about up to now, a film called Das Phänomen Karajan ("The Karajan Phenomenon"):
tvsales.orf.at/db/db_single?caller=525&ka=music
The description that's provided sounds rather interesting:
I was just curious if anyone had seen this film, or if anyone knew of any sources to obtain it. It would be a particular treat to see Telemondial rehearsals (the only one of which I've seen is the brief clip from the Tschaikowsky 5th that's provided on the karajan.org site).
tvsales.orf.at/karajan_link.htm
If you follow the "Search In This Category" link, you see a list of Karajan's Telemondial films on offer (no hitherto-unseen concerts, unfortunately), and also a description of a fairly recent biopic that I'd only heard about up to now, a film called Das Phänomen Karajan ("The Karajan Phenomenon"):
tvsales.orf.at/db/db_single?caller=525&ka=music
The description that's provided sounds rather interesting:
In this portrait Uli Märkle, the Telemondial manager and long time Karajan companion, illustrates the cooperation with the Maestro, who’s total dedication to music became next to proverbial. Uli Märkle also describes a humorous, and in many questions interested contemporary who liked Westerns and preferred “Bratwürstel” to all other dishes. The new found film cuts show Karajan with Nicolai Ghiaurov as Don Giovanni in Salzburg, Jess Thomas as Siegfried and Grace Bumbry as Carmen. But also rehearsals out of Telemondial concert productions, that were first presented at the inauguration of the Karajan Centrum are integrated in this ORF production.
This Karajan portrait also includes interview clips that Heinz Fischer Karwin recorded with the famous conductor.
This Karajan portrait also includes interview clips that Heinz Fischer Karwin recorded with the famous conductor.
I was just curious if anyone had seen this film, or if anyone knew of any sources to obtain it. It would be a particular treat to see Telemondial rehearsals (the only one of which I've seen is the brief clip from the Tschaikowsky 5th that's provided on the karajan.org site).