Archives for September 12, 2018

Bruno Walter leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of the finale of Mozart’s G Minor Symphony, filmed in 1950. This sequence is an excerpt from Botschafter der Musik, a 1954 documentary about the orchestra:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Strange! When I hear music—even when I am conducting—I hear quite specific answers to all my questions—and am completely clear and certain. Or, rather, I feel quite distinctly that they are not questions at all.”

Gustav Mahler, letter to Bruno Walter, 1909