IGOR MARKEVITCH
WAGNER: TANNHÄUSER OVERTURE; TRISTAN UND ISOLDE - PRELUDE UND LIEBESTOD
SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 1
STRAVINSKY: SYMPHONY OF PSALMS
All filmed in Paris in 1963, 1967 and 1968.
Source: INA Archive
BONUS: IGOR STRAVINSKY CONDUCTS THE FIREBIRD
Filmed in London, 1965.
Source: BBC Archive
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Who could resist the fascinating prospect of Stravinsky conducting the 1965 New Philharmonia in his own Firebird Suite, cueing every line with unwavering authority? 'Stravinsky's Stravinsky' comes as the bonus to an ORTF concert of music by Wagner, Shostakovich (First Symphony) and more Stravinsky (Symphony of Psalms) led, between 1963 and 1968, by that most dynamic and fastidious of conductors - a fine composer himself, in fact - the Russian-born Italian Igor Markevitch.

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