The issue I had with the date of 1973 vs. 1975 is that the video on KZfaq said 1975 in the title/description but 1973 in the video itself.

Growing up on Looney Tunes cartoons my entire childhood, I was introduced to a whole world of classical music.

The conductor Herbert von Karajan had a jet plane that he flew himself. Aside from being one of the most important conductors of the 20th century, he did something that many don't know. He accelerated digitization by about 15 years. That's how it happened, he heard that Philipps was researching a lossless method to store music recordings forever. But the research was expensive and threatened to be discontinued. So he invested 100 million in this research. The CD came onto the market much earlier and the development of digital storage accelerated.

There's a saying that the definition of an Intellectual is someone who can hear The William Tell Overture and NOT think of The Lone Ranger.

The conductor probably can play more than one instrument, but not all. BUT! He knows how to read the musical scores for every instrument, he knows all of the instructions given in those scores, and he conveys those instructions to the musicians. They keep their eyes on him and depend on him to keep time. A small band depends on the drummer to keep them all together, a large band or orchestra depends on the conductor.

Seeing people's eyes opened to classical music is a joy. I must have heard the William Tell Overture hundreds of times in my life, but it's a thrill every time. Thanks, guys.

The most compelling thunderstorm that was ever written (composed) in classical music, including raindrops an all. Can you imagine what it's like to sit in the middle of the orchestra while playing this in fortissimo (the loudest your instrument can possibly produce) and you have no chance to hear yourself playing because the 120 people around you are also playing at the same level and the sound is coming from all sides at once? The horse riding is such a good connection because the rhythm is exactly what it feels like to ride a horse in canter :-)

There is an old saying that the sign of a cultured person is that he can hear the William Tell Overture without thinking of The Lone Ranger.

Filming this would have been REALLY DIFFICULT in 1973 ... because the cameras were still "giant beasts" that typically needed a solid thing to stand on. So they had a lot of them in strategic and very static shots (down a line of musicians).

Those Bass players where filmed like SUPERHEROES! GREAT FOOTAGE, FANTASTIC RECORDING by the GOAT Karajan! ❤

The old joke was that an intellectual was someone who could listen to the end of the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger

Rossini est un génie sous-estimé : il nous fait entendre un orage avec les gouttes d’eau…

No one does rock'n'roll like a symphonic orchestra :)

Ah Herbert von Karajan! He was my favourite conductor. Back in the 70's and 80's I would go the music store at least once a week and every time I saw a new record with him conducting I would buy it. He then helped CD become a thing. I bought my first CD player in 1988 and the first CD I bought was... Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But the second one was Also Sprach Zarathustra conducted by Herbert von Karajan. I still remember (with chills) when he conducted Beethoven's 9th Symphony on live TV after the fall of the Berlin wall.

The camera angles on the musicians and instruments really gives the piece a lot of feeling of intensity.

Such an iconic masterpiece! Studies have shown that if the William Tell Overture had never been conceived and executed, the world would have already stopped spinning and we would all be dead!

It was once said about those of us of a certain age group, that the "definition of an 'intellectual' is someone who can listen to Rossini's William Tell Overture without thinking of 'The Lone Ranger'"! Sadly I'm of the age when The Lone Ranger and Tonto were great hero's. So glad you're enjoying these tasters of the Classical and the Baroque eras.

My dad was a senior Navy Officer, but he had a great sense of humor! At our family's cabin in Northern New Mexico (on vacation!), he would play the William Tell Overture at 7:00 AM to get us up in the morning! But it wouldn't start in the first movement! Good thing he already had the coffee made! Some of us weren't morning people!

Bolero would be good to do, its used in a lot of samples and references in so much music even to this day. Haydns surprise would also be fun, that song always cracks me up.

Rossini is a lot of fun, this and the Thieving Magpie were favorites from childhood.