Great Conductors: Sir Georg Solti Journey of a Lifetime (2012 2022) Blu Ray

Sir Georg Solti was one of the greatest recording artists who ever lived not only his still unequalled record of 31 Grammysr attests to that: the present documentary illluminates the life and work of Sir Georg Solti on the 100th anniversary of his birth. We follow the Hungarian-Jewish conductor's career: as Toscanini's assistant at the Salzburg Festival, as music director in Munich and Frankfurt after the war, achieving worldwide fame with his legendary Vienna Philharmonic recording of Wagner's Ring cycle. It was as the long-serving music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra that Solt became an international star of classical music, one whose musical ardour and perfectionism remain unsurpassed to this day.

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