Title : New Year's Eve Concert - Gala from Berlin: Grand Finales
Year: 1999
Genre : Classical
Conductor : Claudio Abbado
Artist : RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Description:

The Berliner Philharmoniker celebrate the last day of the 20th century with Grand Finales in the first part of this extraordinary concert, and herald the leap into the 21st century with an explosion of sparkling music in the second half of the programme. For the Grand Finales, Claudio Abbado conducts masterpieces like the final movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, excerpts from Stravinsky's Firebird and the last movement of Mahler's 5th Symphony. The world-famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer narrates from Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.

Recorded live from the Berlin Philharmonie, New Year's Eve 1999 .

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 : IV. Allegro con brio

Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 , B. 163 : IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp major: V. Rondo-Finale

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird (excerpts)

Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Part III: Danse generale

Sergey Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 : Alexander's entry into Pskov

Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder: Seht die Sonne

Paul Lincke:
Grigri: Overture
Folies-Bergere Marsch
Brandbrief-Galopp
Frau Luna: Berliner Luft

Siegfried Translateur: Sportpalast-Walzer

Ernst Fischer: Sparkling Champagne

Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor): Overture

Walter Kollo: Solang noch Untern Linder


Issued: USA | EUROARTS
Duration: 1:48:15