"Actor: Vaclav Talich"

• Art Of Conducting - Legendary Conductors Of A Golden Era | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £13.47   |  Saving you £4.52 (25.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Interviews with conductors from the golden era of classical music including Willem Mengelberg Erich Kleiber Charles Munch Sergiu Celibidache & Evgeny Mravinsky. 100 minutes of rehearsal and performance footage is included. Some of the footage is very rare and hasn't been seen since it was screened on television in the 1960's.

• Vaclav Talich - Dvorak Slavonic Dances | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £12.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (6.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The legendary conductor Vaclav Talich (1883 - 1961) who shaped the Czech Philharmonic over the course of entire decades recorded Dvorak's Slavonic Dances in 1955 at what was then Czechoslovak Television. It was his last work with the orchestra. Vaclav Talich said of his work: 'We conductors are a strange combination of self-confidence and humility when we face the composer whose work we are studying...' Inspired by Talich's life director Martin Suchanek recorded the documentary Conf