Two very rare videos from our archives.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of his death and no orchestra that he worked with – Berlin, Vienna, Philharmonia – has bothered to commemorate it.
Listen to this account of the Tannhäuser overture. Does any other conductor come close to his hypnotic grip?
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