Coriolan is a soldier and a commander, and at the same time a man exhacerbated by his senses of honour and guilt that will ultimately bring him to death.

The genius of Beethoven is so powerful that these feelings become, so to say, almost physically present in the execution. And so it can happen that Coriolan flows into the interpreter-Conductor, who gives his identity back to him.

The physical and emotional intensity of the character, which bursts out from the film of the concert, is “crystallized” in the selected frames that show some of its moments made still-stock. The Conductor’s gesture and body bearing make his metamorphosis apparent: by letting the Music flow into himself, he becomes himself a soldier and a commander, and at the same time a man divided and suffering from the inner conflict that will be fatal to him.

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