Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert (2016)
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Claudio Abbado (1933–2014) was one of the outstanding personalities in the history of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In May 2013, their unique partnership ended with Abbado’s last concert with the orchestra. The programme included two of the most important works of musical Romanticism: Hector Berlioz’s visionary Symphonie fantastique and Felix Mendelssohn’s magical, shimmering music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. To mark the second anniversary of Claudio Abbado’s death on 20 January 2016, audio and video recordings of this memorable evening have been released in a hardcover luxury edition. With comprehensive articles, bonus videos and previously unpublished photographs, it documents Abbado’s work with the orchestra whose chief conductor he was from 1990 to 2002.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (2022)
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Anton Bruckner is a composer with an unmistakable musical language: darkly glowing, overwhelmingly beautiful, but also energetic and innovative. For the Berliner Philharmoniker, this music has been part of their artistic identity for over a hundred years. The orchestra now presents Bruckner’s symphonies in an exclusive edition, recorded over the last ten years together with some of the foremost Bruckner interpreters of our time.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2022)
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Dieses Konzert wird Geschichte schreiben. Vielleicht als dasjenige, mit dem der Grundstein für eine neue Partnerschaft gelegt wurde, die man sich nie hätte träumen lassen.
Aber der Reihe nach. Herbert Blomstedt, der die letzten Abonnementkonzerte dieser Saison mit der Berliner Staatskapelle leiten sollte, stürzte am Tag vor der Generalprobe unglücklich, so dass er ins Krankenhaus kam. Für ihn übernahm – und hier wird es pikant – Christian Thielemann. Die beiden Abende waren seine ersten mit diesem Orchester überhaupt.
Auch wenn öffentlich nicht ein schlechtes Wort gefallen ist, eine gewisse Rivalität existierte zwischen Barenboim und Thielemann natürlich über viele Jahre, zumal beide Giganten dieselben Repertoire-Vorlieben teilen. 2004 verließ Thielemann bekanntlich die Deutsche Oper Berlin, weil er nicht hinnehmen wollte, dass sein Orchester tarifvertraglich schlechter gestellt wurde als Barenboims Staatskapelle. Das hätte jeder andere Spitzendirigent wohl genauso gemacht. Aber das sind alte Kamellen, so dass es Zeit wurde, darunter mal einen Schlussstrich zu ziehen. Jedenfalls dirigierte Thielemann jetzt sozusagen das „Konkurrenz“-Orchester. Und das ließ sich mit nur einer Probe so phänomenal gut an, dass man meinen könnte, da sei schon über lange Zeiträume etwas zusammengewachsen, was zusammengehört.
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Berliner Philharmoniker – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 “Eroica” (Remastered 2022) (2022)
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In the mid 1960s Herbert von Karajan decided to record on film all nine Beethoven symphonies with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. One of the most controversial productions was Hugo Niebeling’s highly personal interpretation of the “Pastorale” (1967), with its abstract shots of instruments, rapid rhythms, fade-ins and symbolically arranged colors. Four years later Niebeling directed the “Eroica”, but Karajan decided to change several passages of the film. This is Hugo Niebeling’s original version; it has been reconstructed in 2010.
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Wann, wie und wo ließe es sich wohl schöner von fernen, geheimnisvollen Welten träumen, als beim traditionellen Waldbühnenkonzert der Berliner Philharmoniker?
Die Berliner Philharmoniker und Dirigent Tugan Sokhiev entführen uns in einen musikalischen Sommernachtstraum mit Werken von Prokofjew und Ravel
Wir erleben Prokofjews humorvolle Musik zur Filmsatire Leutnant Kijé, reisen in den Orient mit Maurice Ravels flirrend-sinnlichen Sheherazade-Liedern (Solistin: Marianne Crebassa) und werden mit Prokofjews Ballettmusik Romeo und Julia Zeugen der berühmtesten Liebesgeschichte aller Zeiten
Die junge Mezzosopranistin Marianne Crebassa ist bekannt für ihre einfühlsame Interpretation der Lieder französischer Komponisten
Special Feature: Dirigentenkamera
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Bruckner: Symphony No.9; Te Deum (1966/2017)
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German conductor Eugen Jochum is considered by many to have been the foremost Bruckner conductor of the mid- to late twentieth century; he producing many outstanding recordings of Bruckner’s symphonies (as well as worthy interpretations of a great many other composers). He also left to posterity a number of written articles on the interpretation of that composer.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1964/2017)
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Like Bruckner, Eugen Jochum was a devout Catholic, and in his recordings of this master’s music there is a tenderness, spirituality, and quality of love that is unique in the discography. Though he refused to rank Bruckner the symphonist as highly as Brahms, Jochum clearly saw a world of meaning in these works, and his two integral recordings of the nine symphonies deserve a place in any serious collection. – Ted Libbey
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan – Bruckner: Symphony No.7 (2014)
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The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue.
For many, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) – hailed early in his career as ‘Das Wunder Karajan’ (The Karajan Miracle) and known in the early 1960s as ‘the music director of Europe’ – remains the ultimate embodiment of the maestro. The release of the Karajan Official Remastered Edition over the first half of 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the conductor’s death in July 1989 at the age of 81.
He was closely associated with EMI for the majority of his recording career (specifically from 1946 to 1960 and then again from 1969 to 1984). EMI’s legendary producer Walter Legge sought him out in Vienna just after World War II and the long relationship that ensued embraced recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia (the orchestra founded by Legge), the Berlin Philharmonic (of which Karajan became ‘conductor for life’ in 1955), the forces of La Scala, Milan, and the Orchestre de Paris.
The Karajan Official Remastered Edition will feature primarily symphonic and choral music. The entire edition will comprise recordings remastered from the original sources in 24-bit/96kHz at Abbey Road Studios, the world’s most renowned recording studio.
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Emil Gilels, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Brahms: The Piano Concertos; Fantasien Op. 116 (1972/2015)
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The concerto sessions took place at a time when we were experimenting with quadraphonic recording, although no Deutsche Grammophon discs were ever issued in that format. Emil Gilels had already made a highly successful recording of the Second Concerto for another company and knew the work backwards, so the sessions were easy, the slow movement in particular requiring very little subsequent editing.
Gilels took the business of recording very seriously and was determined that we should too. For him the sound had to be worked on during the sessions, just like his interpretation. Once we let him try out the piano in eight different positions before he was convinced that the one we had advocated from the beginning was correct!
When Eugen Jochum was asked in an interview a year before his death about the finest recordings of his long and distinguished career, he singled out the Brahms concertos with Gilels for special mention. Considering that Jochum was “only” accompanying a soloist, it is hard to imagine a more eloquent tribute to the discs’ success.
– Klaus Scheibe
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (2007)
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The German Requiem is Brahms’ largest single composition and a pivotal work in his own creative life. It bears little relation to the Messa da Requiem of Catholic liturgy. Less a requiem for the dead, it is more an act of consolation for the bereaved. Brahms told Karl Reinthaler, the choirmaster (and trained theologian) who helped prepare the work’s premiere in Bremen in 1868: ‘I could easily dispense with the word “German” and replace it with “Human”.’ Like Heinrich Schütz in his 1636 burial mass, Musikalische Exequien, Brahms sets German- language texts drawn from the Bible. Many are familiar from Protestant funeral rites used in Germany and elsewhere; the emphasis, however, is very much Brahms’s own.
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Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann, Genia Kühmeier, Kostas Smoriginas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Bizet: Carmen (2012)
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Carmen was premiered at the (second) Salle Favart, the home of Paris’ Opéra-Comique – then as now in the Place Boieldieu – on 3 March 1875. Georges Bizet, its composer, died of a heart attack exactly three months later, on 3 June, aged 36. In his short life he had written, in whole or in part, more than a dozen works for the lyric stage, ranging from one-act operettas to five-act grand operas: and had contemplated at least a dozen more. He was exceptionally well connected in the tight-knit and faintly incestuous musical world of mid-19th-century Paris, and almost universally well-liked. Over 4,000 mourners attended his funeral in the Église de la Sainte-Trinité – the location of Rossini’s in 1868 and Berlioz’s the year after – including his former mentor Charles Gounod, so emotionally overwrought that he was unable to finish the eulogy at the subsequent interment at Père Lachaise. That night – 5 June – Carmen was given its 33rd performance at the Salle Favart; and this time the press that had greeted the work’s premiere with almost unanimous hostility was suddenly to be found bemoaning the loss of one of French music’s greatest talents.
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Сomposer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Artist: Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Title: Beethoven – Symphonies 1-9
Genre: Classical
Label/Source: © Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings
Release Date: 2016
Recorded in 24-bit/192kHz at the Berlin Philharmonie, 6 & 12 October 2015 (1/3); 7 & 13 October 2015 (2/5); 3, 9 & 15 October 2015 (4/7); 8 & 14 October 2015 (8/6); 10 & 16 October 2015 (9)
Quality: Blu-Ray
Duration: 04:09:20 + 04:08:08
Video: MPEG-4 AVC ~19990 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: German LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio: German DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / ~2250 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Subtitle: German, English, Japanese
Size: 44.9 GB + 42.6 GB
Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies with their chief conductor are always a milestone in the artistic work of the Berliner Philharmoniker. So it was with Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, and expectations are correspondingly high for this cycle conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Where does the special status of these symphonies come from? Simon Rattle has an explanation: “One of the things Beethoven does is to give you a mirror into yourself – where you are now as a musician.” In fact, this music contains such a wealth of extreme emotions and brilliant compositional ideas that reveal the qualities of the orchestra and its conductor as if under a magnifying glass.
On his personal approach to the performances, Sir Simon said, “You can make Beethoven too sophisticated or too elegant, you can clean him up too much. You can try to make him agree with himself when often he’s fighting with himself. I have the feeling probably that the more plain-spoken this music is, the better it is. And one knows with this orchestra, when you say ʻwill you joyfully motor this machine off the clifftop?ʼ, everybody says ʻof course we willʼ.” The concerts in which the Berliner Philharmoniker and their chief presented the symphonies in the Philharmonie in October 2015 were as thrilling as this suggests. The virtuosity of the works was revealed as impressively as their revolutionary energy. Performances in Paris, Vienna and New York followed and were rewarded with standing ovations from audiences.
The recording of the Berlin performances is available in an exclusive hardcover edition. It includes the cycle on five CDs and three Blu-ray discs as HD video, in uncompressed audio resolution and DTS surround sound. Its many extras include a video introduction with Sir Simon Rattle and a documentary about the making of the recordings with many interviews and glimpses behind-the-scenes. (more…)
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2008)
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Any mention of the name Hector Berlioz inevitably brings to mind his most famous work, theSymphonie fantastique. Written in 1830, the year of the ‘July Revolution’ that defeated the post-Napoleonic monarchy in France, this symphony (Berlioz’s first) is itself a revolution in sound and concept. Here we see the 27-year-old composer taking a bold step into the future, rejecting the symphonic canon of the past, and creating in its place a new hybrid genre that blended elements drawn from the world of opera with more traditional forms and compositional devices belonging to the world of instrumental concert music. Berlioz referred to this unique genre – part symphony, part opera – as the ‘dramatic symphony’.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Mitsuko Uchida – Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 (2018)
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There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beethoven’s own instrument was the piano, and in his improvisations – which made him the darling of the Viennese salons – he merged virtuosity and unbridled expression. The piano concertos give a clear idea of these performances. At the same time, they are prime examples of Beethoven’s ability to create large orchestral works with seemingly endless arcs of tension.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – The Asia Tour (2018)
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Sir Simon Rattle’s last Asia tour as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker was a triumph, and is documented here in selected audio and video recordings. At the heart of this edition are audio recordings of the two final concerts at the legendary Suntory Hall in Tokyo – the musical and emotional highlight of the tour. “The quality of the orchestra delighted audiences,” said one critic. “It was a virtuoso display of ensemble playing that is simply indescribable.”
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