Sommernachtskonzert 2021 / Summer Night Concert 2021 Daniel Harding & Wiener Philharmoniker

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901):
• 1Verdi: I vespri siciliani: Overture09:34
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: 
• 2Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Introduction - Allegro vivace - Variation I (Precedente)00:28
• 3Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Tema - L'istesso tempo00:19
• 4Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation II - L'istesso tempo00:19
• 5Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation III - L'istesso tempo00:25
• 6Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation IV - Più vivo00:31
• 7Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation V - Tempo precedente00:29
• 8Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation VI - L'istesso tempo01:08
• 9Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation VII - Meno mosso, a tempo moderato01:13
• 10Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation VIII - Tempo I00:35
• 11Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation IX - L'istesso tempo00:32
• 12Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation X - L'istesso tempo00:54
• 13Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XI - Moderato01:32
• 14Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XII - Tempo di minuetto01:27
• 15Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XIII - Allegro00:30
• 16Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XIV - L'istesso tempo00:45
• 17Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XV - Più vivo scherzando01:06
• 18Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVI - Allegretto02:00
• 19Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVII - Allegretto02:14
• 20Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVIII - Andante cantabile02:45
• 21Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XIX - A tempo vivace00:27
• 22Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XX - Un poco più vivo00:35
• 23Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXI - Un poco più vivo00:25
• 24Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXII - Un poco più vivo01:40
• 25Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXIII - L'istesso tempo00:52
• 26Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXIV - A tempo un poco meno mosso01:31
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
• 27Beethoven: Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"03:57
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990): Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: 
• 28Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: I. Prologue04:30
• 29Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: II. Somewhere04:38
• 30Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: III. Scherzo01:26
• 31Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: IV. Mambo02:46
• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934):
• 32Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 1203:54
• Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957):
• 33Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11: I. Intermezzo04:32
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918):
• 34Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L 8611:10
• Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934):
• 35Holst: The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity08:30
• Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825 - 1899):
• 36Jr.: Wiener Blut, Walzer, Op. 35409:34
• Total Runtime01:29:13

Info zu Sommernachtskonzert 2021 / Summer Night Concert 2021

Ein Abend im Zeichen des Fernwehs: Eines der größten Klassik-Konzerte der Welt ist alljährlich das stimmungsvolle Sommernachtskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker, welches in der Regel vor 100.000 Zuschauern im festlich illuminierten Schlosspark von Schloss Schönbrunn in Wien stattfindet. 2021 ist die Zahl der Zuschauer pandemiebedingt auf 3.000 Sitzplätze begrenzt, ein Teil der Karten wurde an Menschen, die in der Pandemie an vorderster Front im medizinischen Bereich und in der Elementarpädagogik tätig waren, vergeben. Millionen von Menschen erreicht das hochklassige Konzert über die in aller Welt angeschlossenen TV-Sender, in Österreich im ORF, in Deutschland bei 3sat. 2021 ist erstmals der Pianist Igor Levit Solist beim Sommernachtskonzert, und erstmalig steht Daniel Harding am Pult der Wiener Philharmoniker. Das abwechslungsreiche Programm steht unter dem Motto "Fernweh". Die Wiener Philharmoniker entführen nach Italien mit Musik von Verdi (Ouvertüre zu "Les vêpres siciliennes"), nach Amerika mit Bernsteins Symphonischen Tänzen aus der "Westside Story", oder mit dem berühmen "Salut d´amour" von Edward Elgar nach England. Jean Sibelius' "Karelia-Suite" steht für Finnland, Claude Debussy lässt die sommerliche Hitze des französischen Südens erglühen in "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune", und in ferne Galaxien versetzt Gustav Holts Musik aus den "Planeten". Starpianist Igor Levit präsentiert mit den Wiener Philharmonikern bei diesem besonderen Abend Rachmaninoffs virtuose "Rhapsodie über ein Thema von Paganini, op. 43".

Igor Levit, Klavier
Wiener Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding, Dirigent

Daniel Harding
Born in Oxford, Daniel Harding began his career assisting Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with the orchestra at the 1996 Berlin Festival.

He is Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Music Partner of the New Japan Philharmonic. He is Artistic Director of the Ohga Hall in Karuizawa, Japan and was recently honoured with the lifetime title of Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. His previous positions include Principal Conductor and Music Director of the MCO (2003-2011), Principal Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony (1997-2000), Principal Guest Conductor of Sweden's Norrköping Symphony (1997-2003) and Music Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (1997-2003).

He is a regular visitor to the Vienna Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle (orchestras of which he has conducted at the Salzburg Festival), Royal Concertgebouw, the Bavarian Radio, Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. Other guest conducting engagements have included the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Oslo Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Orchestras and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. Among the American orchestras with whom he has performed are the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2005 he opened the season at La Scala, Milan, conducting a new production of Idomeneo. He returned in 2007 for Salome, in 2008 for a double bill of Bluebeard’s Castle and Il Prigioniero, and most recently in 2011 for Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci, for which he was awarded the prestigious Premio della Critica Musicale “Franco Abbiati”. His operatic experience also includes Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic, The Turn of the Screw and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Festwochen and Wozzeck at the Theater an der Wien. Closely associated with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, he has conducted new productions there of Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and Le nozze di Figaro. In the 2012/13 season he returned to la Scala for Falstaff and made his debuts at both the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin and at the Wiener Staatsoper with Der Fliegende Holländer. This season he will conduct the Concentus Musicus Wien at the Melk Festival in Handel’s Israel in Egypt and the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Masaot ‘Clocks Without Hands’ with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, Cologne and Luxembourg.

His recent recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Mahler Symphony No. 10 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra have both won widespread critical acclaim. For Virgin/EMI he has recorded Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brahms’ Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra (winner of a Grammy Award for best opera recording), Don Giovanni and The Turn of the Screw (awarded the “Choc de l'Année 2002”, the “Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros” and a Gramophone award) both with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; works by Lutosławski with Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and works by Britten with Ian Bostridge and the Britten Sinfonia (awarded the 'Choc de L'Annee 1998”).

In 2002 he was awarded the title Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2012 he was elected a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Booklet für Sommernachtskonzert 2021 / Summer Night Concert 2021