To play Beethoven's music is to give oneself over completely to the child-spirit which lived in that grim, awkward, violent man. Without that utter submission it is impossible to play the Adagio of the Ninth. Or, Heaven knows, the first movement. And the Finale? Most of all! It is simply unplayable unless we go all the way with him, as he cries out "Brüder!" - Leonard Bernstein
Plácido Domingo
Self / TenorLeonard Bernstein
Self / ConductorWiener Philharmoniker
Gwyneth Jones
Self / SopranoShirley Verrett
Self / Mezzo-SopranoMichael Wager
Self / Off-screen AnnouncerMartti Talvela
Self / Bass-Baritone