Ode to Freedom - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Official Concert of the Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989)

Product Description Only a few days after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, Leonard Bernstein conducted this gala concert. The final chorus became an ode, not to joy, but to freedom. Review Bernstein is a master theatricalist in his conducting; he sweats, grimaces, smiles, swoons, leaps, and crouches, his stick technique is at many points firm and decisive, at others floppy and vague. […]The experience of watching and listening to this performance will go some way to enable us all, German or non-German, to relive those truly momentous days. --Musicweb-international