Simon Rattle conducts Dvořák, Stravinsky, Strauss, Bernstein, Shostakovich, and Brahms — With Joyce DiDonato : Gala from Berlin 2017 / Torben Jacobsen, director.

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Video

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Torben, film director.

DiDonato, Joyce, performer.

Language:

English

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Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 27 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, color.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.

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digital

video file

Summary:

Every year, the extraordinary Berliner Philharmoniker puts on a winter gala like only they can, inviting some of the most coveted names in the business to help them ring in the new year at the Berliner Philharmonie. In this stellar 2017 edition, the great Sir Simon Rattle leads the legendary ensemble—alongside superstar American mezzo Joyce DiDonato! This year’s striking and deliciously varied program is a rousing song-and-dance act, as ballet scores by Stravinsky and Shostakovich blend seamlessly with lively dances by Dvořák, Brahms, and Bernstein. The dynamic DiDonato shines brightly in magnificent Lieder by Richard Strauss and an excerpt from a rarely-heard work by Bernstein, A White House Cantata, adapted from the Broadway musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—a notorious flop owing to its “clunky” and “overburdened” book, but certainly not to the witty and enchanting music, which shows “Bernstein at his most exuberant and all-embracing” (The New York Times), allowed to breathe freely in the cantata. Photo © Salva López.

Contents:

Carnival Overture, Op. 92 / Antonín Dvořák

Apollo / Igor Stravinsky

Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 / Richard Strauss

5 Lieder, Op. 41 / Richard Strauss

Three lieder, Op. 43 / Richard Strauss

4 Lieder, Op. 27 / Richard Strauss

Six lieder, Op. 56 / Richard Strauss

Three Dance Episodes from On the Town / Leonard Bernstein

A White House Cantata / Leonard Bernstein

The Golden Age, Ballet Suite, Op. 22a / Dmitri Shostakovich

Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 / Antonín Dvořák

Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor / Johannes Brahms.

Participant:

Joyce DiDonato.

Notes:

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Dvořák, Antonín. Carnival Overture, Op. 92.

Container of: Stravinsky, Igor. Apollo.

Container of: Strauss, Richard. Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1.

Container of: Strauss, Richard. 5 Lieder, Op. 41.

Container of: Strauss, Richard. Three lieder, Op. 43.

Container of: Strauss, Richard. 4 Lieder, Op. 27.

Container of: Strauss, Richard. Six lieder, Op. 56.

Container of: Bernstein, Leonard. Three Dance Episodes from On the Town.

Container of: Bernstein, Leonard. A White House Cantata.

Container of: Shostakovich, Dmitri. The Golden Age, Ballet Suite, Op. 22a.

Container of: Dvořák, Antonín. Slavonic Dances, Op. 72.

Container of: Brahms, Johannes. Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor.

OCLC:

1461919688

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