Yanni: Live at the Acropolis

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into life as it really is.

Runtime

55m

Cast

Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony

Karajan's very best video Beethoven 9th Symphony, recorded December 31, 1977. The Quartet of vocal soloists and Chorus in IV are superb. This is much better than Karajan's 1968 Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven 9 video (DG), filmed in the Philharmonie with no live audience present.

Runtime

1h 8m

Director

Herbert von Karajan

Cast

José van Dam, Agnes Baltsa, Anna Tomowa-Sintow

Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.

Runtime

6m

Director

Riley Thompson

Cast

Walt Disney, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig

Franz Schubert works as school teacher, yet his mind and soul are in music. When he is engaged as a pianist for an aristocratic soirée he doesn't suspect how this will change his life forever and even determine his unfinished symphony.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Willi Forst

Cast

Mártha Eggerth, Luise Ullrich, Hans Járay

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissf...

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Gregory Ratoff

Cast

Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak