Internationally acclaimed, best-selling author Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music. Over the course of two years, Murakami and Ozawa discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from Bartok to Mahler, and from popup orchestras to opera. They listen to and dissect recordings of...

This DVD uniquely presents Maestro Seiji Ozawa conducting two great choral masterpieces beloved by audiences and singers the world over. Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, by turns boisterous and lyrical, sets ribald medieval songs in a celebration of life's pleasures. Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony, the "Choral", famously concludes with the uplifting "Ode to Joy," a timeless plea for universal brotherhood.