Kurt Masur Anniversary Gala: In celebration of Kurt Masur's 80th Birthday : Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Georg Wübbolt, director, Georg Wübbolt, director.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Wübbolt, Georg, film director.

Schmidt, Harald, performer.

Masur, Kurt, conductor.

MDR Fernsehen.

EuroArts Music International.

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 29 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : MDR Fernsehen : EuroArts Music International, 2007.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

In 1970, Kurt Masur was appointed musical director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a position he would hold for twenty-six years. Over the decades he brought his technical discipline and irreproachable expertise to concert halls all around the world, but it was to Leipzig--and to the ensemble that became one of the world's best under his baton--that he chose to return, this time as conductor laureate, for a celebratory concert in honor of his 80th birthday. For that special night in 2007, Maestro Masur designed a delightfully wide-ranging program, leading his audience on a veritable world tour: from his native Germany, Otto Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor and celebrated works by Brahms; eastward to Bohemia (Dvořák's Slavonic Dances), Poland (a Mazurka from Halka), and Russia (Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien); westward to France--where he spent six years directing the Orchestre National--with Bizet's Carmen and Dukas's Sorceror's Apprentice; across the Atlantic, where his eleven years at the helm of the New York Philharmonic brought West Side Story's "Mambo" and selections from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; and finally south of the border to Brazil, rounding out the festivities with a lively orchestration of "The Girl from Ipanema."

Contents:

Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) / Otto Nicolai

Halka / Stanislaw Moniuszko

18 Liebeslieder. Waltzes, Op. 52 / Johannes Brahms

Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 / Antonín Dvořák

Capriccio Italien in A Major, Op. 45 / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

West Side Story Symphonic Dances / Leonard Bernstein

Porgy and Bess / George Gershwin

The Sorcerer's Apprentice / Paul Dukas

Carmen / Georges Bizet

The Girl from Ipanema / Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Participant:

Harald Schmidt.

Notes:

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Nicolai, Otto, 1810-1849. Lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Ouverture

Container of: Moniuszko, Stanisław, 1819-1872. Halka. Mazur

Container of: Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Liebeslieder, singers (4), piano, 4 hands. Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen; arranged.

Container of: Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Liebeslieder, singers (4), piano, 4 hands. Wenn so lind dein Auge mir; arranged.

Container of: Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904. Slovanské tance, op. 72. No. 2; arranged

Container of: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Capriccio italien.

Container of: Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Symphonic dances from West Side story. Mambo.

Container of: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess. Oh, I can't sit down

Container of: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess. There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York

Container of: Dukas, Paul, 1865-1935. Apprenti sorcier.

Container of: Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen. Prélude

Container of: Jobim, Antonio Carlos. Garota de Ipanema; arranged.

OCLC:

1190903463

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