Wilhelm Furtwängler

"In this new documentary ... the spot-light is on the orchestra itself - the musicians, the people, their individual destinies. First-hand accounts of life in and around the orchestra, delivered by contemporary witnesses, still alive today, as well as a wealth of previously unevaluated archive material, provide a highly authentic glimpse into the period under the swastika."--Container.

The meeting of Siegfried with the dragon and with Brünnhilde.

Traces the "path from the orchestra's emergence at the end of the 19th century up to the present day when Sir Simon Rattle inaugurated a new era in the ensemble's history."--Container.

A sweeping survey of Western civilization tracing the interaction between man and art, philosophy, literature, music, and architecture between the fourth and twentieth centuries.