Karajan Digital Movie Theatre

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Not only is this the world’s largest collection of quality Karajan VOD movies in one place, this is also the only time that the complete Unitel Karajan catalogue has ever been made available online.

Over the coming months we will be rolling out the full 52 titles. Meanwhile, you can find 14 handpicked and reviewed Karajan movies below. The Von Karajan filmed legacy is impressive to say the least. Beginning with his early experiments in 1964, Karajan quickly grasped the new medium’s possibilities and, thanks to his partnership with Leo Kirch, the life and times of Herbert von Karajan are preserved for classical music lovers everywhere.

Every movie in this catalogue is having a meaningful 3 minutes trailer available. By clicking on the basket you can buy single tickets from € 2,99 or buy the special Karajan pass. A Karajan Movie Pass for € 99,99 gives you full access for one full year to ALL Karajan films whenever you like.

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Monteverdi - Claude Debussy - La Mer Von Karajan and his Berliner Philharmoniker Claude Debussy - La Mer Von Karajan and his Berliner Philharmoniker

Debussy's La Mer (The Sea; 1903-1905) is one of the most famous non-symphonic orchestral pieces ever written. One of the few recordings Karajan made of non-German repertoire: outstanding in all aspects. (Concert – 25 minutes)

Price: € 2,99
Monteverdi - Johannes Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem Berlin Philharmonic ft. Gundula Janowitz & José van Dam Johannes Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem Berlin Philharmonic ft. Gundula Janowitz & José van Dam

A live performance of Brahms masterly German Requiem. Von Karajan conducting a star setting of his Berlin Philharmonic, Gundula Janowitz, José van Dam and the excellent Viennese Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. Performed during the Salzburg Easter Festival (Concert – 81 minutes)

Price: € 4,99
Monteverdi - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 Berlin Philharmonic ft. Alexis Weissenberg – piano Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 Berlin Philharmonic ft. Alexis Weissenberg – piano

Not only a strong performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto, but an even more remarkable turn by Karajan as video director. His camera work is stunning for 1975, diving very deep in the musicianship of Weissenberg, Karajan and his Philharmonic players. (Concert – 39 minutes)

Price: € 3,99
Monteverdi - Richard Strauss – Don Quixote ft. Mstislav Rostropovich & Berliner Philharmoniker Richard Strauss – Don Quixote ft. Mstislav Rostropovich & Berliner Philharmoniker

Don Quixote unifies two of the great performers of the second half of the 20th century. In an almost perfect picture and sound recording we see Von Karajan at his peak conducting and accompanying Slava Rostropovich, shortly after his exile from Russia in 1974. (Concert – 46 minutes)

Price: € 3,99
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Monteverdi - Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly ft. Star cast of Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo & Christa Ludwig Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly ft. Star cast of Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo & Christa Ludwig

Filmed version by director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, called "a weaver of magic, a curator of the sublime, a master choreographer, a footlose farceur" (The Wall Street Journal). One of the most imaginative director/designers of our times. (Opera – 147 minutes)

Price: € 5,99
Monteverdi - Giuseppe Verdi – Otello Salzburg Festival production ft. Jon Vickers & Mirella Freni Giuseppe Verdi – Otello Salzburg Festival production ft. Jon Vickers & Mirella Freni

Here we see again Von Karajan in full blossom. Controlling all elements, every detail of an opera production as conductor, stage director ánd video director. Here we can clearly see, feel and hear Karajan’s vision on one of the major Verdi opera’s: Otello. (Opera – 141 minutes)

Price: € 5,99
Monteverdi - Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 Von Karajan's historical performance of the Pathétique Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 Von Karajan's historical performance of the Pathétique

An in-depth interpretation of this highly passionate and emotional symphony the Russian composer Tchaikovsky wrote shortly before his death in 1893. Karajan shows himself again as a superb conductor of the major romantic repertoire. (Concert – 46 minutes)

Price: € 2,99
Monteverdi - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 Von Karajan and his Berliner Philharmoniker Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 Von Karajan and his Berliner Philharmoniker

Anyone who ever saw him conduct live or on his many audiovisual recordings will agree that in his performances, music did indeed become a religion with Karajan as its high priest. This stunning Tchaikovsky 5 performance is one in a series of Unitel productions with Von Karajan in total control of music and vision in his role as conductor and video director. (Concert – 49 minutes)

Price: € 3,99
Monteverdi - Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 Von Karajan conducts his Berlin Philharmonic Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 Von Karajan conducts his Berlin Philharmonic

One of the first examples of Karajan’s self produced film oeuvre. Naming this film a ‘Live Recording in Video Quadraphonic’ tells everything about the ambition of this pioneer of the media era. And, not to forget, in this Beethoven 5 with his own Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra we hear an extremely powerful Von Karajan in Beethoven’s best known symphony: a monumental document. (Concert - 32 minutes)

Price: € 3,99
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Monteverdi - Giuseppe Verdi – Messa da Requiem Live from Teatro La Scala ft Pavarotti & Leontyn Price Giuseppe Verdi – Messa da Requiem Live from Teatro La Scala ft Pavarotti & Leontyn Price

In this noteworthy all-star production the legendary Herbert von Karajan conducts Luciano Pavarotti and Leontyne Price. Originally performed at La Scala in 1967 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Toscanini's death, this production was also recorded on film in 1967. Being one of Karajan's earliest film productions (and his first color film), it reflects his innovation especially through his choice of Henri-Georges Clouzot as director. (Concert – 85 minutes)

Price: € 4,99
Monteverdi - Antonín Dvořák– Symphony No. 9 Special concert film on Von Karajan and his Berliner Antonín Dvořák– Symphony No. 9 Special concert film on Von Karajan and his Berliner

Between 1965 and 1967, Clouzot directed five black and white film works for Von Karajan, whereby he displayed a marked talent for underlining the conductor's ‘star’ aspect. Dvorák's Ninth Symphony (from the New World) was produced in 1966. The performance is preceded by a filmed rehearsal that offers valuable insights into Karajan's art of conducting and into his interpretation of Dvorák's "great intimacy with nature, which his music expresses in every tune and which is also a kind of folklore". (Concert - 52 minutes

Price: € 3,99
Monteverdi - The Art of Conducting Herbert von Karajan´s vision on Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 The Art of Conducting Herbert von Karajan´s vision on Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5

Herbert von Karajan talks about the art of conducting and instructs a young conductor in a rehearsal of the 5th Symphony in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven with the Berliner Philharmoniker. A remarkable documentary film by Karajan’s kindred spirit Henri-Georges Clouzot. (Documentary - 20 minutes)

Price: € 2,99
Monteverdi - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 Vienna Symphony Orchestra ft. Yehudi Menuhin – violin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 Vienna Symphony Orchestra ft. Yehudi Menuhin – violin

In this black and white series of ‘The Art of Conducting’ we see the two giants of the classical pre-war era: Herbert von Karajan and master violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The recording shows Karajan in full bloom and Menuhin in one of his favorite Violin Concertos. (Concert - 29 minutes)

Price: € 2,99
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