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1.New Year's Day Concert 2008 - Georges Pretre/Wiener Philharmoniker starring: Georges Pretre, Wiener Philharmoniker directed by: Brian Large January 21, 2008
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With a world-wide TV and radio audience guaranteed and a tradition going back nearly 80 years, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year concerts can now afford to present several first time inclusions selected from the works of the over-worked and over-stressed Strauss Family. Six items in the 2008 program make their first appearance. Two are by Strauss The Father including a waltz with a short introduction that becomes very loud. These two items acknowledge French inspiration, as does Johann The Son's "Orpheus Quadrille", entirely based (not merely providing "echoes" as the booklet writer asserts) on melodies from Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld". Another first time inclusion is the veteran French conductor Georges Prêtre whose ... Read More:

2.Mozart - Gala from Salzburg (Harding, Wiener Philharmoniker) [2006] starring: Thomas Hampson, Rene Pape, Wiener Philharmoniker, Patricia Petibon, Anna Netrebko directed by: Brian Large August 18, 2008
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With a world-wide TV and radio audience guaranteed and a tradition going back nearly 80 years, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year concerts can now afford to present several first time inclusions selected from the works of the over-worked and over-stressed Strauss Family. Six items in the 2008 program make their first appearance. Two are by Strauss The Father including a waltz with a short introduction that becomes very loud. These two items acknowledge French inspiration, as does Johann The Son's "Orpheus Quadrille", entirely based (not merely providing "echoes" as the booklet writer asserts) on melodies from Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld". Another first time inclusion is the veteran French conductor Georges Prêtre whose ... Read More:

3.Beethoven - Missa Solemnis In D Major, Op.123 [1990] starring: Ludwig van Beethoven, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ruza Baldani, Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker February 04, 2008
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With a world-wide TV and radio audience guaranteed and a tradition going back nearly 80 years, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year concerts can now afford to present several first time inclusions selected from the works of the over-worked and over-stressed Strauss Family. Six items in the 2008 program make their first appearance. Two are by Strauss The Father including a waltz with a short introduction that becomes very loud. These two items acknowledge French inspiration, as does Johann The Son's "Orpheus Quadrille", entirely based (not merely providing "echoes" as the booklet writer asserts) on melodies from Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld". Another first time inclusion is the veteran French conductor Georges Prêtre whose ... Read More:

4.Mozart 22 - Die Zauberflote [2007] starring: Diana Damrau, Genia Kuhmeier, Paul Groves, Rene Pape, Christian Gerhaher directed by: Pierre Audi, Brian Large January 22, 2007
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This Magic Flute (part of the M22 project) is charming and delightful, a sheer joy. It achieves just the right balance between the fairytale and spiritual elements of the singspiel and is brimming with inventiveness. The bright pop-up-book colours and toyshop imagery perfectly represent the pantomime aspect of this "magic opera" which meshes well with the altogether more serious business of Sarastro's realm of Enlightenment wisdom. I love the burlesque touches which occur throughout and the comic scenes around Papageno which make this such a happy and constantly droll performance. The staging is visually striking. I love the day-glo skies and the moving mountains which glide across the stage, cleverly creating different acting areas. ... Read More:

5.Bruckner: Symphonies 8 & 9; Te Deum [1985] by: Anton Bruckner starring: Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, David Rendall, José van Dam, Wiener Philharmoniker February 04, 2008
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To mark the 100th anniversary of Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon continues the exploration of its video catalogue and unearthing these remarkable Bruckner concerts from 1978/79 with the Wiener Philharmoniker is a more than welcome event. What I find amazing about these filmed documents is that they disprove more than anything the complaints often laid against Karajan as the inhuman control freak. Here is a conductor, in the autumn of his career, entirely on top of his game, serving as the most dedicated guide through these fascinating works, obtaining magnificent results from one of the finest orchestras of the day. Karajan knows as none else to blend sense of architecture with orchestral detail and transparency. His Bruckner may not always ... Read More:

6.Wien Nach Noten - Willi Boskovsky [2008] starring: Wiener Philharmoniker, Die Wiener Saengerknaben, Willi Boskovsky directed by: Peter Lodynski October 15, 2007
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If you have a couple of hours to kill I guarantee you will find this DVD simply delightful. When I've had a stressfull day I put it on and realise what life is really all about. The superbly recorded pieces are mainly covered by twee images of early 70's Vienna and some with Dr. Willi conducting in the concert hall. Either way, this DVD should be given on the NHS as it is an antidote to malaise!

7.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [1966] (NTSC) starring: Walter Berry, Reri Grist, Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingvar Wixell, Claire Watson directed by: Günther Rennert October 21, 2003
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If you have a couple of hours to kill I guarantee you will find this DVD simply delightful. When I've had a stressfull day I put it on and realise what life is really all about. The superbly recorded pieces are mainly covered by twee images of early 70's Vienna and some with Dr. Willi conducting in the concert hall. Either way, this DVD should be given on the NHS as it is an antidote to malaise!

8.Richard Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos - Karl Bohm [1965] starring: Eiik Frey, Reri Grist, Sena Jurinac, Wiener Philharmoniker, Jess Thomas September 21, 2004
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If you have a couple of hours to kill I guarantee you will find this DVD simply delightful. When I've had a stressfull day I put it on and realise what life is really all about. The superbly recorded pieces are mainly covered by twee images of early 70's Vienna and some with Dr. Willi conducting in the concert hall. Either way, this DVD should be given on the NHS as it is an antidote to malaise!

9.Schubert - Symphony No. 9/Schumann - Manfred Overture - Bernstein [1985] starring: Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks directed by: Humphrey Burton March 31, 2008
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I have never been among those who fawn over everything Leonard Bernstein ever did. And I had some concerns, given the dates of recording (1987 for the Schubert, 1985 for the Schumann) that these performances might turn out to be among those mannered, sooo slow performances that Bernstein often led toward the end of his life. But I needn't have worried. Both performances are mainstream in general but with numerous evidences of Bernstein's own unique stamp (as, for instance, in the return of the oboe tune in the Andante second movement where he emphasizes the distant accompanimental proto-Mahleresque trumpet-and-drum fanfares). I have reviewed two other DVD performances of the Great C Major symphony -- those led by Günter Wand and by Karl Böhm, the latter ... Read More:

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