Lucerne Festival at Easter - BLU-RAY

SALZBURG FESTIVAL CONCERTS (6-DVD Box Set) DVD 1 – 2008 Opening Concert The concerts that occur each year at the Salzburg Festival are undoubtedly some of the finest performances in the world. Established in 1920, the Festival is held each summer in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In addition to the various concerts that are performed each year, operas and plays are presented as well. This unique and extensive features six concerts from the Salzburg Festival that were recorded between 2007 and 2013. The fine orchestras featured include the Wiener Philharmoniker, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and the National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela under the batons of Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim, and Sir Simon Rattle. Maurice Ravel Valse nobles et sentimentales Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91 Igor Stravinsky L’oiseau de feu (The Firebird) Daniel Barenboim, piano Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Pierre Boulez, conductor DVD 2 – 2009 Opening Concert Franz Schubert 6 German Dances, D. 820 (arr. A. Webern) Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “Great” Josef Strauss Frauenherz, Op. 166 Delirien, Op. 212 Pêle-mêle, Op. 161 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor DVD 3 – 2010 Opening Concert Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 Pierre Boulez Notations I-IV and VII (version for orchestra) Anton Bruckner Te Deum, WAB 45 Dorothea Röschmann, soprano Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor René Pape, bass Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Daniel Barenboim, piano and conductor DVD 4 – 2011 Opening Concert Alban Berg Lulu Suite Der Wein Gustav Mahler Das klagende Lied Anna Prohaska, soprano Dorothea Röschmann, soprano Anna Larsson, contralto Johan Botha, tenor Vienna

Lucerne Festival Opera Brahms, Featuring Brahms, Johannes Brahms, Nelsons, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Michael Beyer.Andris Nelsons conducts the Lucerne Festival Opera in this performance of Brahms' works, recorded in August 2014. For the first time, the festival would take place without the incomparable Claudio Abbado, with the young Latvian Andris Nelsons leading the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Nelsons had already won the trust and respect of both listeners and performers in a moving memorial concert for Abbado in Lucerne. He is known internationally as one of the most gifted conductors of his generation. Now he was poised to lead the prestigious festival into a new era he brilliantly mastered this Inchgreatest challengeInch (as he himself called it) of his career. The audience and the musicians responded with heartfelt gratitude. InchHe is aware of every single player and carries us on an unbelievable wave of enthusiasmInch, according to concertmaster Sebastian Breuninger. Solo violist Wolfram Christ adds, InchNelsons accepts what is inherent in our orchestra and what comes from Abbado; he builds on it and makes it into something new.Inch The works featured are 'Serenade No. 2 in A Major', 'Alto Rhapsody' and 'Symphony No. 2 in D Major'. Recorded live at the Concer Hall of KKL Luzern 15-16, August 2014. Subtitled German, English, French, Japanese, Korean.

In 2024, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra continued their acclaimed Rachmaninoff cycle with a concert spanning the composer's lifetime from the youthful freshness of the composer's earliest works like the rarely performed InchYouth SymphonyInch and his Piano Concerto No. 1, to the musical mastery and maturity of his last major work, the InchSymphonic DancesInch. Young piano prodigy Alexander Malofeev, in whose repertoire Rachmaninoff's music occupies a special place, gave his much-lauded Lucerne Festival debut as the soloist of the evening with an electrifying performance.