Vaclav Talich: Dvorak Slavonic Dances - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra available on February 28 2016 from Amazon for 14.99
Vaclav Talich - Dvorak Slavonic Dances available on January 30 2015 from Base for 11.59
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Product category is DVD - Music: Classical Audio
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Product weight is 0.25 lbs.
Vclav Talich (1883 - 1961) was the legendary chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1941, who created that ensemble's specific symphonic sound and established its worldwide reputation. After the Communist takeover in Czechoslovak
There is a 45 minutes or so documentary on the life of this great conductor mostly in colour. It covers his family as well as musical background: so he was once the concert master of Berlin Philharmonic under Nikisch. He was literally the father of the modern Czech Philharmonic but his fate turned and twisted first with the coming of the Nazism and then with Communism...The Slavonic Dances were filmed, however, back in 1955. And even though the photography was more than accept..