. . Klemperer on film - The Stanford Collection

Dr. Charles Barber, a conductor active in concert, opera, and recordings, and a teacher in the history and aesthetics of conducting, has collected 900+ hours of film footage of 280 conductors in rehearsal, concert, and conversation. The Klemperer footage is listed below. It can currently be viewed by appointment with Dr. Barber (650-969-3318, barber@batnet.com), and will eventually be housed in the Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University.

Beethoven, Egmont, rehearsal Philharmonia Orchestra, in Musikvereinsaal, Vienna 1960 1:30/A-1 KLEMP-1, IMG-1

Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, New Philharmonia Orchestra and chorus, concert at Royal Albert Hall, London, recorded 27 October 1964, 1995 release 77:00 EMI Classics videocassette

Wagner, Parsifal, fragment; et al Los Angeles Philharmonic, Forest Lawn at Glendale, California Blythe Taylor Burns, soprano; Glendale Community Chorus, Joseph Klein, choral conductor; Albert Hay Malotte, Gaylord Carter, accompanists; William Farnum, speaker; Easter sunrise service, 5:20am, April 12, 1936 courtesy Hearst- Metrotone Archive, UCLA [unedited newsreel footage] 9:00/HM-1

Die Deutsche Mitte: Kroll und der Platz der Republik A social and architechtural history of the Kroll Opera and environs, featuring Klemperer and his circle Joerg Moser-Metius, Director; 1991 58:00/A-32

Bei Kroll The Kroll Opera during Klemperer's tenure, 1927-1931 Joerg Moser-Metius, Director; 1990 28:00/KLEMP-6

Sound of a Century -- The Concertgebouw at 100 NTSC, PAL 1988 Dutch television documentary about hall, orchestra, and its conductors 2:26:00/A-131

Otto Klemperer's Long Journey through His Times TV documentary, Holland/Germany 1984, musical excerpts including:

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4, rehearsal New Philharmonia Orchestra 3:00/KLEMP-1

Brahms, Symphony No.3, rehearsal New Philharmonia Orchestra 3:00/KLEMP-1

Haydn, Symphony No. 92