The Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic

Product Description The film brings to life, in a manner as fascinating as it is sensitive, this chapter in the history of Germany and its capital Berlin, and explores the question: How does one tread the fine line between independence and individual responsibility? Review It's not often the classical music world becomes a microcosm of human behaviour. But that is what Enrique Sanchez Lansch's documentary on the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra does. These 90 minutes (plus a bonus track of Furtwängler conducting the orchestra at a munitions factory in 1942) are a squirm-inducing testament to how most of us look out for No. 1. Except, in this instance, it comes with a better soundtrack. -- The Toronto Star, John Terauds, April 2008 From the Contributor Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts the Vorspiel from Richard Wagner "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" 1942 at a AEG Worker Concert