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[EuroArts 2055308] Europa-Konzert 2006 from Prague

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Channel: Naxos Music · 2010 · Music

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Daniel Barenboim, piano; Radek Baborák, horn
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Barenboim

EuroArts once again releases the Berlin Philharmonics annual Concert for Europe. This annual musical summit in important cultural cities has been a brand name for excellence since 1991, when the Berlin Philharmonic gave their first European Concert. This years all Mozart concert took place in Prague on May 1st. In honour of the composers 250th birthday, the Berlin Philharmonic invited the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim to lead them through a concert featuring two masterpieces from the Mozart repertoire, the Haffner and Linz Symphonies. In his familiar dual role as soloist and conductor, he also performed the Piano Concerto No.22. The concert was performed and recorded in the Estates Theatre Prague, which is one of the most beautiful historical theatres in Europe  a fitting surrounding for the 2006 European Concert. It was in this theatre that Mozart conducted the premier of Don Giovanni, a work written specially for Prague, in 1787 and for this concert recording, the orchestra sat in a reconstruction of the sets that had been used at the first performance of the opera. The state-of-the-art recording brings a truly European musical highlight to the home screen and includes a Portrait of Prague as a cultural city in a 20-minute bonus feature.

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