Recorded live at the Great Concert Hall, Jerusalem, 1-3 August 1978Leonard Bernstein leads the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a revelatory performance of Brahms’ Symphonies Nos. 1&3. Bernstein cited the Israeli orchestra as one of his favourites with which he worked in his long career. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s robust, thick-textured style has a beauty distinct from the leaner sound cultivated in our own time. Returning to the Brahms symphonies many times in his conducting career, Bernstein was never a conventional Brahmsian, but nor was he a complacent one content to recycle traditional habits. Info Picture Format NTSC • 43 fullscreen / Sound Formats PCM Stereo • Dolby Digital 5.1 • DTS 5.1 / Region Code 0 / Booklet Notes English, German, French / Running Time 94 mins