Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2009 - BLU-RAY

This C Major Entertainment Blu-ray Disc Features the Opening Concert of the 2008 Salzburg Festival. With Pierre Boulez Leading the Vienna Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim at the Piano, the Evening's Program Included Ravel's Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, Stravinsky's the Firebird (1910) and, with Mr. Barenboim, Bela Bartok's First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

Director Francis Ford Coppola and novelist Mario Puzo's story of the Corleone clan continues, as new boss Michael (Al Pacino) launches a violent campaign to extend his family's power, while flashbacks of a young Vito (Robert de Niro) depict his arrival at Ellis Island to his rise to Mafia prominence and his return to Sicily on a mission of vengeance. The superb sequel film that earned six Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor co-stars Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg. 3 1/3 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtracks English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Dolby Digital Restored mono, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles English, French; audio commentary by Coppola.

The opening concert of the Salzburg Festival, for many regarded as the world's most renowned music festival, is by tradition a high-profile event and the 2011 gala presented here was one of the best in memory. Pierre Boulez, the Inchgrand seigneur of subtle minimalism and exquisitely beguiling soundsInch (Der Standard), assembled a cast of tremendous distinction to join the Vienna Philharmonic for this prestigious concert, conceived as a tribute to Gustav Mahler Dorothea Roschmann, Anna Larsson, Johan Botha and rising star Anna Prohaska. After two works by Mahler's pupil Alban Berg, featuring Roschmann and Prohaska, the main event of the concert if Mahler's large-scale cantata Das klagende Lied - a Inchgreat spectral opera for the mind's eyeInch (Vienna Zeitung).