A portrait of Carlo Maria Giulini

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A filmed portrait of the late great Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini. Far from being an autocratic conductor or a kinetic dynamo of the podium, Mr. Giulini was a probing musician who achieved re...

A filmed portrait of the late great Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini. Far from being an autocratic conductor or a kinetic dynamo of the podium, Mr. Giulini was a probing musician who achieved results by projecting serene authority and providing a model of selfless devotion to the score. His symphonic performances were at once magisterial and urgent, full of surprise yet utterly natural.--Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times. In 1998 at the age of 85, Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini announced his retirement from public life. Shortly afterward, he gave a series of interviews that are featured in this documentary. Discussing his musical philosophy, the ethics of art, and the importance of nurturing younger generations, Giulini gives us a window into his life on and off the concert stage. The interview footage is interwoven with evocative archival photographs and film footage of the maestro working with a youth orchestra on Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale."

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