Salzburg Festival Opening Concerts
The Salzburg Festival, held at Mozart’s birth city every year, is one of the most prestigious in the world. For a long time now, any major artist strives to be invited there, and it is a sign of professional success and recognition.
This recording provides the listener with four Salzburg Festival Opening Concerts, and they are now available in a beautiful hardcover case.
The musical selections are as follows:
Bartók:
Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83
- Daniel Barenboim (piano)
- Pierre Boulez
Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
- Daniel Barenboim (piano)
- Daniel Barenboim
Berg:
Lulu-Suite (Five Symphonic Pieces) for soprano and orchestra
- Anna Prohaska (soprano), with Chorus State Opera Vienna, Pierre Boulez
Der Wein
- Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), with Chorus State Opera Vienna, Pierre Boulez
Boulez:
- Notations I-IV
- Daniel Barenboim
- Notations VII
- Daniel Barenboim
Bruckner:
Te Deum in C major, WAB 45
- Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), René Pape (bass), with Chorus State Opera Vienna, Daniel Barenboim
Mahler:
- Das klagende Lied
- Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto) & Johan Botha (tenor), with Chorus State Opera Vienna, Pierre Boulez
Ravel:
- Valses nobles et sentimentales
- Pierre Boulez
Schubert:
- 6 German Dances D820, orch. A Webern
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 ‘The Great’
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Strauss, Josef:
- Frauenherz-Polka Op. 166
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Delirien Waltz, Op. 212
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Pêle-mêle – Polka schnell, Op. 161
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Stravinsky:
- The Firebird
- Pierre Boulez, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The performing casts include conductors Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt; as well as the Wiener Philharmoniker, and singers Röschmann, Garanča, Vogt, Pape, Prohaska, Larsson, and Botha.
Running Time: Total: 365 minutes
Here is the Beethoven Piano Concerto 4, first movement, Allegro Moderato:
http://youtu.be/pWhyIUh1uRU
And next, here is Daniel Barenboim, with the Wiener Philharmoniker performing a brief section of Bruckner’s ‘Te Deum’ at the Salzburg Festival Opening in 2010:
Tags: Salzburg Festival, Opening concerts, Barenboim, Beethoven, Bruckner, Boulez, Stravinsky