Karajan conducts, Mutter burns, your soul levitates. Classical music as nuclear event.
Famed conductor Herbert Von Karajan leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of what may be Vivaldi's best-known composition -- "The Four Seasons" -- in this sparkling video. Recorded in 1987 at the Chamber Music Hall, this concert features Anne-Sophie Mutter as a guest violin soloist.
Cinematography
Karajan's hair alone deserves its own Oscar category.
Acting
Mutter's physicality — she BECOMES the seasons.
Direction
Hermanns captures intimacy in a massive hall.
Director
Günter Hermanns
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Karajan and Mutter had a famously difficult professional relationship; this 1987 recording captures one of their rare collaborative triumphs before his death in 1989.
This performance helped rehabilitate Vivaldi from 'elevator music' status to serious repertoire in the 1980s classical boom.
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