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This documentary shows a new perspective on the personality and oeuvre of Richard Strauss, who saw himself as the last great composer at the end of an era, at the end of the rainbow. This carefully researched production presents spectacular hitherto unreleased pictures of Richard Strauss. Among others: a live recording of the premiere of the Olympic Anthem at the Berlin Olympic stadium in 1936. The very first performance of this piece ever to be heard, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and a choir of 1000 singers, conducted by Richard Strauss himself. These spectacular and rare pictures are embedded in interviews with relatives, famous musicians and Strauss experts, including Christian Strauss, Stefan Mickisch and Brigitte Fassbaender. Director Eric Schulz is an acclaimed documentary film maker whos first two films, Carlos Kleiber Traces to Nowhere and Herbert von Karajan - The Second Life both attracted worldwide attention and were rewarded with various prizes, including the ECHO Klassik and the Gramophone Award.
Coming just fifteen years or so after Wagner, Strauss was a formidable classical composer and in many ways, enigmatic. As another reviewer notes on these pages his activities or non, other than musical, in his homeland from 1933 to 1945 raise many questions. Though unlike Wagner, Strauss was not noted for expressing his societal or political views thereby concealing his true opinions about what was going on around him. Unlike Wagner he was apparently totally devoid of any flamboyance. The brilliance of his compositions, it can be said, speaks for itself. His orchestration ability and writing for the voice, especially the female, may be unequaled. However as noted by his Grandson in this presentation, it is not widely recognized that Strauss was continuously employed as a conductor, traveled regularly and conducted various orchestras an estimated 6,000 to 6,500 times during his long career. This documentary offers insight and provides visuals of this historic figure from the annals of classical music imagination.
