Thielemann Garanca Wiener Philharmoniker - Wesendonck Lieder - BLU-RAY

Christian Thielemann is a compelling advocate for German music, and his Salzburg Festival 2020 programme with the Wiener Philharmoniker is smack-dab at the heart of his favoured repertoire. For his long-awaited return to the Summer Festival, he opens with Wagner's Wesendock Songs, considered musical sketches for the opera Tristan und Isolde, with terrific Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as soloist. The centerpiece is Bruckner's Symphony No. 4, the Romantic. Storms of applause. InchTogether with an orchestra that breathes with her, Elina Garanca proved that she currently represents the non plus ultra in the mezzosoprano category. Grandiose the fusion of intensity and noble soundInch (Der Standard) InchAn event with goose bumpsInch (Kurier)

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Special concerts reserved for subscribers. Due to the exceptional quality of the concerts and the limited offer, the average waiting time for subscribers is more than 10 years. With this series, these very special concerts are made available for the first time audiovisually to a wider audience worldwide. For this subscription concert, the Wiener Philharmoniker asked a long-time artistic companion to take the podium more than 140 concerts and a multitude of celebrated recordings connect Christian Thielemann with the traditional Viennese orchestra. The live recording of his debut on the podium at the Vienna Musikverein almost 23 years ago promptly became a reference recording. On the programme then as now Richard Strauss' monumental Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony). This work, often regarded as the final and climax of the Inchsymphonic poemInch genre, is juxtaposed with Arnold Schönberg's probably most famous tonal composition, the orchestral version of the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Composed in 1899, this highly expressive work by the 25-year-old Schönberg reads, in retrospect, like a swan song to the 19th century.InchSchönberg and Strauss rarely sound so grandiose.Inch KurierInchA truly persuasive performance.Inch The New York TimesInchThe 'Alpine Symphony' under Thielemann has long been a Viennese legend.Inch Die PresseProgram Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op. 4Richard Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op. 64