SALZBURG FESTIVAL CONCERTS

(6-DVD Box Set)

DVD 1 – 2008 Opening Concert

The concerts that occur each year at the Salzburg Festival are undoubtedly some of the finest performances in the world. Established in 1920, the Festival is held each summer in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In addition to the various concerts that are performed each year, operas and plays are presented as well. This unique and extensive release features six concerts from the Salzburg Festival that were recorded between 2007 and 2013. The fine orchestras featured include the Wiener Philharmoniker, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and the National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela under the batons of Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim, and Sir Simon Rattle.

Maurice Ravel: Valse nobles et sentimentales

Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91

Igor Stravinsky: L’oiseau de feu (The Firebird)

Daniel Barenboim, piano

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Pierre Boulez, conductor

DVD 2 – 2009 Opening Concert

Franz Schubert:

6 German Dances, D. 820 (arr. A. Webern)

Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “Great”

Josef Strauss:

Frauenherz, Op. 166

Delirien, Op. 212

Pêle-mêle, Op. 161

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

DVD 3 – 2010 Opening Concert

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58

Pierre Boulez: Notations I-IV and VII (version for orchestra)

Anton Bruckner: Te Deum, WAB 45

Dorothea Röschmann, soprano

Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano

Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor

René Pape, bass

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim, piano and conductor

DVD 4 – 2011 Opening Concert

Alban Berg:

Lulu Suite

Der Wein

Gustav Mahler: Das klagende Lied

Anna Prohaska, soprano

Dorothea Röschmann, soprano

Anna Larsson, contralto

Johan Botha, tenor

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Pierre Boulez, conductor

DVD 5 – West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: The Salzburg Concerts

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-Flat Major, K. 297b

Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b

Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique”

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim, conductor

DVD 6 – El Sistema at Salzburg Festival

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan”

George Gershwin: Cuban Overture

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story: Symphonic Dances: IV. Mambo

Johann Strauss I: Radetzky March, Op. 228

Alberto Ginastera: Estancia Suite, Op. 8a*

National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

* Jesús Parra, conductor

Simon Rattle, conductor

WHITE HANDS CHOIR OF VENEZUELA

Chorus Masters: Naybeth Garcia, Luis Chinchilla

singing music by Rutter, Palma, Mozart, Cespedes, Freites, Piazzolla

Recorded live from the Salzburg Festival, 2007 (DVD 5), July 2008 (DVD 1), 2009 (DVD 2), 2010 (DVD 3), 2011 (DVD 4), 2013 (DVD 6)

FEATURES:

• Picture format: NTSC 16:9
• Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.0/5.1
• Region code: 0 (worldwide)
• Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean (all) /+ Latin, Japanese, Chinese (DVD 3) /+ Japanese (DVD 4) /+ Chinese, Korean (DVD 6)
• Running time: 10 hrs 36 mins
• No. of DVDs: 6 (DVD 9)
• Salzburg Festival Concerts