reiner 

This guy knew what 100% perfect actually means.

"It's marvelous, but would you like to schmaltz it up more ?", and he said "No." LOL

This is splendid. What a contrast to, say, Kleiber. I feel though that some violins wanted to juice it up, to speed it up. But, he gave them the look!

When Bernstein was his student at Curtis he once called Reiner "Fritz" to his face

..one of his musicians stated he was great....a short tubby man, .and anti social and a sadistic boss.....in fact he refused to be part of the Chicago scene...he retained his home in Connecticut all those years he was a Chicago conductor, and left Chicago when the season ended, each year...

The master conductor of the 20th century!

A giant of the art of conducting!!!thank you so much!!!

An angry turtle...

He was talking about the sound he wanted to build during his conductorship with the Cleveland Orchestra : the sound of the pre-WW1 European orchestras and the sound of American orchestras of the golden era.

what the hell, I don't know how I got here, but I love it!

Он так показал первую долю, что я не включая звука догадался, что это VII симфония)

even with a little body movement, he shows exactly what he wants in the music. really a master!

Is the full video of Reiner conducting Beethoven's 7th available somewhere? There's a video made in 1954 at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o8Ofa8N1pQs.html, but this seems to be a later version.

Musik und Wahrheit. Das ist wahre Musik. Da haben wir's.

Two years before he caught a cab_____

みんな音をよく聞いてるなあ

Amazing footage !!!!! Please post more!!!!!________________________|

Thanks!

the video is a half tone up!

I think Reiner was great in modern and romantic repertoire, a bit stiff, wooden and joyless in Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven..

As I watched this video - the first movement of the seventh is a joyous movement - I was trying to think if I could hear joy in the music. I don't think so, and the sour expression on Reiner's face wan't helping. Of course I believe he was ill in his last years with a heart problem. There certainly wasn't much joy in the lessons the Hungarian taught at Curtis, as Leonard Bernstein recalls.

what did szell wanna say at the end?

His stick technique was already terrible by this point.

What piece is this?

Unfortunately the pitch is a half tone to high. It should be a major not b flat major!

移調奏か。

He did have the advantage of having known Beethoven personally...