Duration
78 Min
Seiji Ozawa & the Boston Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven, Bartók & Ives
Concert
Alte Oper, Frankfurt
Production Date: 04/09/1991
78 Min
The late Seiji Ozawa was the Boston Symphony’s longest-serving chief conductor, and during his 29-year tenure this most illustrious of America's "Big Five" orchestras built a truly global reputation. This concert – recorded live on tour at Frankfurt’s Alte Oper in 1991 – finds this famous partnership in full flight in a vintage Boston programme: a piece of classic Americana from Charles Ives, Beethoven's most playful symphony (an Ozawa favourite) and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, a work written for, and premiered by, this very orchestra. Few ensembles have a deeper connection with the piece – and you can tell.
- Ensemble:
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor:
- Seiji Ozawa
