Summer Concert from the Berlin Walbühne - Mariss Jansons

Summer Concert from the Berlin Waldbühne - A Night of Encores - Eine Nacht der Zugaben

DVD9 - PAL - 16:9 - All Regions - LPCM, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 - 116 min. -

Recorded 2002, released 2005


Mariss Jansons, Vadim Repin & The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra



In the summer months, the Berlin Philharmonic gives a concert in the Waldbühne, a large open-air park in Berlin. I suppose these concerts are akin to the UK’s Kenwood and Leeds Castle events with the exception that the current concert uses the Berlin Philharmonic with an internationally famous soloist and conductor.

The last five items are all Jansons favourites. Jansons has the ability to invest tremendous zest in these pieces. He is aided and abetted by Vadim Repin and the Berlin Philharmonic at their most lusty.

The Berlin Philharmonic plays superbly for Mariss Jansons, and the total artistry of Vadim Repin only adds to the total effect. Repin’s playing of the Paganini has to be watched to be believed, and the audience, quite justifiably, go wild at the end, causing him to repeat the piece, this time modified for even greater effect, enchanting all present including orchestra and conductor.

01. Stanislaw Moniuszko - Mazurka from Halka
02. Henri Wieniawski - Polonaise, Op. 4
03. Peter Tschaikowsky - Melodie from "Souvenier d'un lieu cher", Op. 42
04. Peter Tschaikowsky - Valse - Scherzo, Op. 34
05. Ruperto Chapi y Lorente - Overture from "La Revoltosa"
06. Hans Christian Lumbye - Champagner - Galopp
07. Yuzo Toyama - Dance of the celestials from Yugen
08. Jean Sibelius - Valse Triste
09. Edward Elgar - The wild bears from "The Wand of Youth", Op. 1b
10. Richard Wagner - Vorspiel zum 3. Akt from "Lohengrin"
11. Fritz Kreisler - Tambourin chinois
12. John William - Tango from "The scent of a woman"
13. Niccolo Paganini - Carnevale di venezia
14. Carl Michael Ziehrer - Wiener Bürger
15. Peter Tschaikowsky --Pas de deux from "Der Nussknacker"
16. Pietro Mascagni -- Intermezzo from "Cavalleria rusticana"
17. Antonin Dvorak -- Slawischer Tanz, Op. 72/7
18. Georges Bizet - Farandole from "L'Arlesienne"
19. Paul Lincke - Berliner Luft