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The Vienna Philharmonic's 2017 Sommernachtskonzert or Summer Night Concert was recorded on May 25 at Schönbrunn Castle and was on the streets before the summer was even out, so if you saw the concert and it's still fresh in your mind, here you go. These concerts are major events of the Viennese summer, with attendance upwards of 100,000, and to an extent, they consist of giving the people what they want. The conductorship rotates among different A-listers, and for 2017 Christoph Eschenbach was invited back just three years after his 2014 appearance, and perhaps he felt justified in experimenting a bit; even the traditional closing-number Wiener-Blut is gone. The results are generally good. The superstar on hand is soprano Renée Fleming, and the album is worth the purchase price for the pair of Dvorák arias she sings at the beginning. Sample "Mesicku na Nebi Hlubokem," from Rusalka, for a taste of the still-considerable Fleming magic. The rather dark Rachmaninov pieces in the middle of the program were perhaps a less-inspired choice, although you can see where Eschenbach was going with Sumerki (Twilight) just corresponding with the end of the long Viennese summer evening. Things pick up again with the unexpected and certainly unconventional pairing of John Williams and Stravinsky's The Firebird toward the end, and Smetana's "Dance of the Comedians" from The Bartered Bride makes a fresh encore that fits this rather Slavic Wiener Sommernacht. An offbeat choice in the series, nicely recorded at the acoustically unforgiving Schloss by the Berlin Teldex engineering team.
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Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Antonin Dvorak, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Antonin Dvorak, Composer - Renée Fleming, Associated Performer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Antonin Dvorak, Composer - Renée Fleming, Associated Performer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
The Sleeping Beauty, Ballet Suite, Op. 66a (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Sergei Rachmaninov, Composer - Renée Fleming, Associated Performer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Sergei Rachmaninov, Composer - Renée Fleming, Associated Performer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Sergei Rachmaninov, Composer - Renée Fleming, Associated Performer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Engelbert Humperdinck, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - John Williams, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
L'oiseau de feu (Firebird Suite) - Ballet Suite for Orchestra (1919) (Igor Stravinsky)
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Bedrich Smetana, Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Christoph Eschenbach, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Johann Strauss Jr., Composer - Christoph Eschenbach & Wiener Philharmoniker, Associated Performer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Recording Engineer
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
The Vienna Philharmonic's 2017 Sommernachtskonzert or Summer Night Concert was recorded on May 25 at Schönbrunn Castle and was on the streets before the summer was even out, so if you saw the concert and it's still fresh in your mind, here you go. These concerts are major events of the Viennese summer, with attendance upwards of 100,000, and to an extent, they consist of giving the people what they want. The conductorship rotates among different A-listers, and for 2017 Christoph Eschenbach was invited back just three years after his 2014 appearance, and perhaps he felt justified in experimenting a bit; even the traditional closing-number Wiener-Blut is gone. The results are generally good. The superstar on hand is soprano Renée Fleming, and the album is worth the purchase price for the pair of Dvorák arias she sings at the beginning. Sample "Mesicku na Nebi Hlubokem," from Rusalka, for a taste of the still-considerable Fleming magic. The rather dark Rachmaninov pieces in the middle of the program were perhaps a less-inspired choice, although you can see where Eschenbach was going with Sumerki (Twilight) just corresponding with the end of the long Viennese summer evening. Things pick up again with the unexpected and certainly unconventional pairing of John Williams and Stravinsky's The Firebird toward the end, and Smetana's "Dance of the Comedians" from The Bartered Bride makes a fresh encore that fits this rather Slavic Wiener Sommernacht. An offbeat choice in the series, nicely recorded at the acoustically unforgiving Schloss by the Berlin Teldex engineering team.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:25:50
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Christoph Eschenbach Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2017 Wiener Philharmoniker, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
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