Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kultur Video
• DVD Release Date: December 20, 2005
• Run Time: 35 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BZIT9S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,503 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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FAMOUS COMPOSERS:RICHARD STRAUSS - DVD Movie

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The life of Richard Strauss--in about 30 minutes, January 18, 2007

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Mr John Haueisen (WORTHINGTON, OHIO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Famous Composers - Richard Strauss (DVD)

This is very good for what it is: a thirty-minute story of the life and work of composer Richard Strauss.

With photographs of Strauss and many of the people and places in his life, and video of present-day sights, this program does a better than expected telling of the Strauss story in 30 minutes. How much can you accomplish in a half hour?

They tell about his music, dividing it into six categories, for which the very-talented Strauss wrote:

orchestral music
chamber music
choral music
songs
ballet music
operas

It was probably Strauss' unique combination of talent and longevity that permitted him to write in so many genre.

The program also deals fairly with the question of Strauss' association with the Nazi party--it doesn't whitewash him, but neither does it excoriate him for his life in very trying times.

In addition to the 30 minute "life of Strauss," there is a five minute musical overview of his many varied works.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just not enough, August 4, 2008

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R. F. M. Kassenaar "Marko Kassenaar" (Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Famous Composers - Richard Strauss (DVD)

Very dissappointing purchase. Merely a 28-minute slideshow of black-and-white photographs with a British-sounding professor, reading out loud a biography. No interviews with conductors, performing musicians, whatsoever. Not one excerpt from his works being played, except for endless repetition of the "Capriccio" string sextet in the background. Very, very poor, indeed.