Various: New Year's Gala '97: Berlin Philharmonic [DVD]

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Album Summary

Performers

• Roberto Alagna (Tenor)
• Gil Shaham (Violin)
• Bryn Terfel (Baritone)
• Anne von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
• Mikhail Pletnev (Piano)

Conductor

• Abbado, Claudio

Ensemble

• Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Composers

• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
• Pablo de Sarasate (1844 - 1908)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
• Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Notes & Reviews:

ClassicalCDReview.com - Robert Benson
Abbado in a brightly festive mood can be observed on this DVD of the Berlin Philharmonic's 1997 New Year's Gala, a rather odd program generally based on Carmen. It begins with minimal highlights from the opera featuring Anne Sophie Von Otter, seen and heard to far greater advantage than she was in the wretched 2003 David McVicar production. Roberto Alagna is Don JosT and Bryn Terfel Escamillo, assisted by choruses. Each of the principals has but one aria. Pletnev is the sterling soloist in the Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody, Gil Shaham gives a spectacular reading of Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy, and Abbado and the famed orchestra are at their virtuoso best throughout. The stereo sound is adequate, video quality excellent. This is worth owning to experience a splendid concert conducted by Abbado.

Notes & Reviews:

Run Time: 85 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby 2.0
Country of Origin: Germany

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Works Details

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Excerpt(s)

• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1873-1874
• Studio/Live: Live

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43

• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1934
• Studio/Live: Live

Sarasate, Pablo de : Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25

• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: ?1883
• Studio/Live: Live

Ravel, Maurice : Rapsodie espagnole

• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1907-1908
• Studio/Live: Live

Falla, Manuel de : El amor brujo

• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1914-1915
• Studio/Live: Live

Brahms, Johannes : Hungarian Dances (21) for Orchestra, WoO 1 :: no 5 in G minor

• Performers: Roberto Alagna (Tenor); Gil Shaham (Violin); Bryn Terfel (Baritone); Anne von Otter (Mezzo Soprano); Mikhail Pletnev (Piano)
• Conductor: Claudio Abbado
• Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1868
• Studio/Live: Live