Music Transfigured: Remembering Ferenc Fricsay

Description: A 111-minute French film by Stephen Wright and Gérald Caillat (Une vie trop brève) with filmed performances of the overture to Rossini's La scala di seta and the Beethoven Leonore No. 3. A brilliant conductor of both opera and concert music who, if he had not died at 49 in 1963, would have been as big a star as Karajan and Bernstein. English subtitles. 4:3 aspect ratio. NTSC all regions.