Under the direction of the principal conductor and artistic director of the Salzburg Mozart Week, Marc Minkowski, the Musiciens du Louvre perform on two of Mozart’s original instruments. Mozart’s Violin Concerto and his Piano Concerto in A major are played on instruments that were once in the composer’s possession. Thibault Noally plays the Violin Concerto on a violin from the workshop of Pietro Antonio Dalla Costa and “conjures up Romantic brilliance from the well maintained instrument”, then Francesco Corti brings Mozart’s fortepiano to life again, thereby spreading “collective Mozart happiness all round” (Salzburger Nachrichten).
Leonard Bernstein – Larger than Life
Leonard Bernstein was America’s musical ambassador to the world. This fascinating documentary shows why Bernstein was one of the most influential classical musicians of the last century. He was an inspirational teacher, a brilliant conductor, a fine composer, and an accomplished pianist. In his role as an educator, he found and fascinated an even larger audience of young listeners on television shows such as Omnibus and Young People’s Concerts. As a composer (West Side Story, On the Town etc.) he could bridge gaps and break down barriers in an extraordinarily skilful and yet accessible manner, reaching a large audience worldwide, way beyond classical music. The film includes interviews with Leonard Bernstein’s children, Jamie, Alexander and Nina Bernstein, Gustavo Dudamel, Stephen Sondheim, Kent Nagano, Marin Alsop, Sir Peter Jonas, Christoph Eschenbach, Norman Lebrecht, members of the Vienna Philharmonics, Craig Urquhart, and many others.
Bruckner Symphony No. 9
Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden will continue their long-running Bruckner cycle with the Ninth Symphony, the very last work from the composer, in which he drew to the conclusion of his symphonic works. The first three movements of the symphony were composed and completed by Bruckner, but he died on the job whilst writing the final movement. In this interpretation of the three-movement original version, “Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden triumphed … It was a musical and a spiritual event”. (Baden online).
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
After the release of the Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 and 9 with Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bruckner cycle is continued with Symphony No. 4, “Romantic”, one of Bruckner’s most popular work. It is played here in the presumed original version recovered by Robert Haas, which differs considerably from the first published score, accepted by Bruckner as a stopgap only so that the work could easily be performed. The press cheered the performance: “Tone paintings of the finest quality.”
W.A. Mozart: Davide penitente – Bartabas & Marc Minkowski
For this spectacular production of Mozart’s Davide penitente on the vast stage of the Salzburg Felsenreitschule at the Mozart Week 2015, Marc Minkowski and the equestrian choreographer Bartabas used dancing horses and thus restored the former riding school to its original function. Horses, riders from the Académie équestre de Versailles and Bartabas himself, whose successful productions are unique in the world of art, perform their elegant dressage arabesques within this exceptional setting. Soloists, chorus and orchestra are ranged over three levels on galleries cut from the bare rock. The result is a unique synthesis of the arts.
“A festival of beauty”. (Münchener Abendzeitung)
“Minkowski and Bartabas have created a great piece of theatre”. (NMZ)
Bruckner Symphony No. 2
Thielemann‘s brilliant interpretation of Bruckner´s Symphony No. 2 is performed wonderfully by the Staatskapelle Dresden, completing their critically acclaimed Bruckner cycle with a concert at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. “In the Elbphilharmonie Thielemann once again proved to be the unrestricted Ruler on his ancestral territory, German Romantic repertoire” (Hamburger Abendblatt) and critics praised how lucent and with how much musical intensity Thielemann conducted this symphony in the acoustics of this hall – an exceptional positive example for subsequent conductors and orchestras.
Salzburg Opening Concert
With Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra you are assured of a
concert of superlatives.
“Unsurpassable in terms of the delicacy of its sonorities.” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
„An ideal combination“ Kronenzeitung
“Boulez at his most responsive and insightful in all three works. And a grandiose orchestra – the Wiener
Philharmoniker in top form” (Kurier).
Tutto Verdi – The Complete Operas
Tutto Verdi – for the first time all 26 operas are available on DVD and Blu-ray in HD and Surround Sound.
“This is how Verdi should be played.” FAZ
Best of Verdi Choruses
OPERA CHORUSES
Nabucco
“Gli arredi festivi giù cadano infranti”
“Va’, pensiero, sull’ali dorate”
I lombardi alla prima crociata
“Gerusalem! Gerusalem!”
“O Signore, dal tetto natio”
Ernani
“Esultiamo! Letizia ne innondi!”
“Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia”
I due Foscari: “Silenzio, mistero”
Attila: “Urli, rapine”
Macbeth
“Tre volte miagola la gatta in fregola”
“Patria oppressa!”
I masnadieri: “Le rube, gli stupri, gl’incendi, le morti”
La battaglia di Legnano: “Viva Italia! Sacro un patto”
Rigoletto: “Zitti, zitti, moviamo a vendetta”
Il trovatore
“Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie”
“Squilli, echeggi la tromba guerriera”
La traviata: “Noi siamo zingarelle … Di Madride noi siam mattadori”
La forza del destino
“La Vergine degli angeli”
“Compagni, sostiamo”
Don Carlo: “Spuntato ecco il dì d’esultanza”
Aida: “Gloria all’Egitto, ad Iside”
Otello: „Fuoco di gioia!
Falstaff: “Tutto nel mondo è burla”