Europakonzert 1999 from Krakow [Blu-ray]

The founding of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the first of May in 1882 is annually celebrated with a concert in aEuropean city of cultural significance. For this newly released EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc all recordings werelovingly restored and converted to High Definition video.

Conductor is two-time Grammy Award winner Bernard Haitink, who was also nominated "Musician of the Year in 2007” by Musical America.

The concert takes place at St. Mary Church, Krakow, a basilica, after which most of the Churches in the US that werebuilt in the so called “Polish style” were modeled. One famous example is St. Michael’s in Chicago.

Soloist Christiane Schäfer , a renowned Soprano, is noted for her fine and subtle voice. Solo pianist is Emmanuel Ax, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition winner.

“Ax is an extremely satisfying pianist; he is at home in a wide variety of music and his pianism is always thoughtful, lyrical, lustrous.” The Washington Post

BD is enhanced by an enticing documentary containing interviews with contemporary Polish composer and tripleGrammy Award winner Krzysztof Penderecki and footage from a performance of the Studium Musicae Cracoviense,an ensemble dedicated to historically accurate performance of – particularly Polish – Renaissance and Baroque music.

This BD comes with a luxury slipcase.

Треклист:
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Mozart: Et incarnatus est (from Great Mass in C minor)
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'