Salzburg Opening Concert

Salzburg Festival, for many regarded as the world’s most renowned music festival, is by tradition a high-profile event. The 2009 Salzburg Festival opening concert with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt honors the conductor on his 80th birthday and it’s an homage to the Viennese dance.

Schubert’s Great C Major Symphony is a “stirring war painting” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“There is a special philharmonic sound under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and the Wiener Philharmoniker sound as they should in the best-possible case: velvety smooth and incredibly compelling” Salzburger Nachrichten

Richard Strauss Gala

This exceptional programme of highlights from Richard Strauss´s works Der Rosenkavalier, Feuersnot,

Salome, Elektra, Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Die schweigsame Frau and Daphne was dedicated to Richard

Strauss 150th birthday in Dresden. The reputation as »THE Strauss-Orchestra« of the Staatskapelle

Dresden results from the special relation to Richard Strauss and his works, which started 130 years ago,

performing many world premieres of Richard Strauss´s operas and orchestral works.

The DVD includes the documentary My Strauss with Christian Thielemann, including a lot of archival

footage with Richard Strauss, rehearsals and concert excerpts of Elektra, Rosenkavalier, Frau ohne

Schatten, Heldenleben, Four last songs and more.

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).

Mahler Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

Symphonies Nos. 5 + 6 will continue the release of the complete Mahler cycle with Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, which since the 80s became a “powerful Mahler orchestra” (Frankfurter Rundschau)

Bonus: Introductions to Symphonies Nos. 5 + 6 with Paavo Järvi