HERBERT VON KARAJAN
BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (with Orchestra de Paris)
Filmed in Paris, 25 June 1970.
Source: INA Archive
BONUS: SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI CONDUCTS BERLIOZ'S LE CORSAIRE OVERTURE
Filmed in Manchester, England, 17 January 1962.
Source: BBC Archive
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This 1970 production transforms the Orchestre de Paris into a mass of silvers and golds, with rainbow colours, hands among the shadows flying across keys or fingerboards and Herbert von Karajan himself the invariable center of attention. Only he could make the Orchestra de Paris sound like the Berlin Philharmonic though the bonus of Sir John Barbirolli conducting his own Hallé Orchestra in 1962 in Berlioz's overture Le corsair is hardly less revealing.

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