The Vienna Philharmonic

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Hosted by Peter Van De Graaff

Closing one of the most exciting seasons in musical history, “2006-the Mozart Year”, the Vienna Philharmonic presents a 13-week series comprised of concerts from its own subscription series as well as from the Vienna Festival. Guest conductors comprise of Who’s Who of the great conductors of our day: Bernard Haitink, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev, Christian Thieleman, and Zubin Mehta among others. This 13-week, two-hour series features interviews with members of the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as a musical feast of Mozart and composers ranging from Beethoven and Brahms to Bruckner and Mahler, and Copland and Bernstein. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is, in its 164-year-long history, traditions and organizational structure, a unique international ensemble. The orchestra is considered by music lovers to be one of the finest in the world, and was once described by the conductor, Hans Knappertsbusch, as being “incomparable”.

January 25, 2007
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Soloist: Alfred Brendel, piano

Mozart: Symphony No. 32 in G Major, K. 318
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10
Recorded at the Vienna Festival on June 8, 2006
February 1, 2007
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Soloist: Daniel Barenboim, piano

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat Major, K. 482
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Ravel: Bolero
Recorded at Musikverein, Vienna, on October 23, 2005
February 8, 2007
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Soloists: Anna Netrebko, soprano; Patricia Petibon, soprano; Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano; Michael Schade, tenor; Thomas Hampson, baritone; René Pape, bass

Mozart: Overture from Don Diovanni
Mozart: Leporello’s Aria: Madamina, il catalogo è questo from Don Giovanni
Mozart: Don Ottavio’s Aria: Dalla sua pace from Don Giovanni
Mozart: Aspasia’s Aria: Nel grave tormento, from Mitridate, rè di Ponto
Mozart: Tito’s Aria: Se all’impero, amici Dei from La Clemenza di Tito
Mozart: Sesto’s Aria: Parto, parto from La Clemenza di Tito
Mozart: Guglielmo’s Aria: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo from Così fan tutte
Mozart: Overture from Idomeneo
Mozart: Ilia’s Aria: Se il padre perdei from Idomeneo
Mozart: Elettra’s Aria, D’Oreste, d’Aiace from Idomeneo
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, Prague

Recorded at Salzburg Festival/Felsenreitschule on July 30, 2006
February 15, 2007
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Soloists: Lang Lang, piano; Haken Hardenberger, trumpet

Mozart: Serenade in B, K. 361, Gran Partita
Olga Nieuwirth: Miramondo Multipla for Trumpet and Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453

Recorded at Salzburg Festival/Grosses Festspielhaus on August 20, 2006
February 22, 2007
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Soloists: Rainer Honeck, violin; Tobias Lea, viola

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-Flat Major, K. 364
Hindemith: Noblissima Visione
Bartók: Zwei Bilder, Op. 10

Recorded at Musikverein/Vienna on February 26, 2006
March 1, 2007
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Soloists: Vienna Singverein Chorus; Genia Kuhmeier, soprano; Monica Groop, contralto; Herbert Lipert, tenor; Gunter Groissbock, bass

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
Bruckner: Te Deum

Recorded at Musikverein/Vienna on November 20, 2005
March 8, 2007
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Soloist: Stepan Turnovsky, bassoon

Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major, K. 191
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

Recorded at Musikverein/Vienna on March 26, 2006
March 15, 2007
Conductor: Georges Pretre

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2

Recorded at Musikverein/Vienna on January 15, 2006
March 22, 2007
Conductor: Christian Thielemann

Schumann: Overture to Genoveva, Op. 81
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38, Spring

Recorded at Vienna Konzerthaus on March 24, 2006
March 29, 2007
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
SOLOISTS: Vadim Repim, violin; Markus Schirmer, piano

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, Op. 70

Recorded at Musikverein, Vienna
April 5, 2007
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Soloist: Heinrich Schiff, cello

Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, Haffner
Johannes Maris
Staud: Musik fur Violincello und Orchester
Mozart: Piano Concerto in B Major, K. 395

Recorded at Salzburg Festival on July 23, 2006
April 12, 2007
Conductor: Leopold Hager
Soloist: Ildiko Raimondi, soprano

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, Prague
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major

Recorded at Vienna Festival on May 15, 2006
April 19, 2007
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Soloists: Saleen Abboud Ashkar, piano; Itamar Golan, piano

Mozart: Two-Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major, K. 365
Fabio Vacchi: Guista Armonia
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, Jupiter

Recorded at Salzburg Festival/Grosses Festspielhaus on August 15, 2006

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