Sommernachtskonzert 2025 / Summer Night Concert - DVD

2023 .

One of the largest classical concerts in the world is the atmospheric summer night concert of the Vienna Philharmonic every year, which usually takes place in front of 100,000 spectators in the festively illuminated palace park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. In 2021, the number of spectators will be limited to 3,000 seats due to the pandemic, and some of the tickets have been awarded to people who have been at the forefront of medical and elementary education during the pandemic. The high-class concert reaches millions of people via the TV stations connected all over the world, in Austria on ORF, in Germany on 3sat. In 2021, pianist Igor Levit will be the soloist at the Summer Night Concert for the first time, and Daniel Harding will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic for the first time.

With this open-air concert in Schönbrunn, the Vienna Philharmonic wishes to provide all Viennese, as well as visitors to the city, with a special musical experience in the impressive setting of Schönbrunn Palace and it's beautiful baroque gardens, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site. - Since 2004 the Vienna Philharmonic has provided an outstanding experience for the audience. In the recent years the orchestra has been conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta and Andris Nelsons. Among the previous guest soloists were Renée Fleming, Lang Lang, Rudolf Buchbinder, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Yuja Wang, Jonas Kaufmann, Igor Levit, Gautier Capuçon and Elina Garanca. It is Sony Classical´s 12th of the Summer Night Concert.