SUMMER NIGHT CONCERT / SOMMERNACHTS KONZERT 2021 / WIENER PHILHARMONIKER, DANIEL HARDING, IGOR LEVIT / Sony Classical / DVD Video

UPC 194399049297

Made in the EU

One of the largest classical concerts in the world every year is the atmospheric summer night concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, which usually takes place in front of 100,000 spectators in the festively illuminated palace gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. In 2021, the number of spectators is limited to 3,000 seats due to the pandemic; some of the tickets were given to people who worked on the front lines in the medical field and in elementary education during the pandemic. The high-class concert reaches millions of people via TV channels all over the world, in Austria on ORF and in Germany on 3sat. In 2021, pianist Igor Levit will be a soloist at the Summer Night Concert for the first time, and Daniel Harding will be conducting the Vienna Philharmonic for the first time.
The varied program is under the motto “Wanderlust”. The Vienna Philharmonic takes you to Italy with music by Verdi (overture to "Les vêpres siciliennes"), to America with Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from "Westside Story" or with the famous "Salut d'amour" by Edward Elgar to England. Jean Sibelius' "Karelia Suite" stands for Finland, Claude Debussy lets the summer heat of the French south glow in ""Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune"" and Gustav Holt's music takes us to distant galaxies the “planet”.
Star pianist Igor Levit presents Rachmaninoff's virtuoso "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43" with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at this special evening.
The concert will be released by Sony Classical on DVD and Blu-ray, which reproduce the atmospheric production in the festively illuminated park at Schönbrunn Palace particularly well, as well as on CD and as a digital album.

• GIUSEPPE VERDI: Les Vépres siciliennes: Overture
• SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini op. 43
• Encore: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770 1827: "Für Elise"-Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59
• LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Prologue - Somewhere - Scherzo - Mambo
• EDWARD ELGAR: Salut d'amour op. 12
• JEAN SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite: Intermezzo op. It
• CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune LBS
• GUSTAV HOLST: The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity op. 32/4
• Encore: JOHANN STRAUSS II 1825-1800: Wiener Blut op. 354

Tracklist:

• Daniel Harding , Vienna Philharmonic , Igor Levit
• DVD
• FSK: no age restrictions
• Language: German
• EAN: 194399049297
• Release date: July 23, 2021