Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Luciano Berio, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Felix Mendelssohn, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Tsfasman, Richard Wagner
Performer: Malena Ernman, Yuja Wang, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, Daniil Trifonov, Ilya Gringolts, Trulls Mørk, Evgeny Kissin, Vadim Repin, Laurent Korcia, Yuri Bashmet, Iréne Theorin, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Bryn Terfel, Zhanna Dombrovkaia, Tatiana Kravtsova, Natalia Evstafieva, Elena Vitman, Irina Vasilieva, Ekaterina Sergeeva, Anna Kiknadze, Yulia Matochkina
Orchestra: Verbier Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Valéry Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Kurt Masur, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Kent Nagano
Number of Discs: 4
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4835143
Release: 2018
Size: 1.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, TH 30 – “Pathétique”
01. 1. Adagio – Allegro non troppo – Andante – Moderato mosso – Andante – Moderato assai – Allegro vivo – Andante come prima – Andante mosso
02. 2. Allegro con grazia
03. 3. Allegro molto vivace
04. 4. Finale. Adagio lamentoso – Andante
Berio: Folk Songs (Arr. for Orchestra)
05. 1. Black is the Colour (USA)
06. 2. I Wonder as I Wander (USA)
07. 3. Loosin yelav (Armenia)
08. 4. Rossignolet du bois (France)
09. 5. A la femminisca (Sicily)
10. 6. La donna ideale (Italy)
11. 7. Ballo (Italy)
12. 8. Motettu de Tristura (Sardinia)
13. 9. Malurous qu’o uno fenno (Auvergne – France)
14. 10. Lo fiolaire (Auvergne – France)
15. 11. Azerbaijan Love Song (Azerbaijan)
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, MWV O7
16. I. Molto allegro con fuoco
17. II. Andante
18. III. Presto
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19
19. 1. Allegro con brio
20. 2. Adagio
21. 3. Rondo. Molto allegro
Tsfasman: Suite for Piano and Orchestra
22. 1. Snowflakes. Allegro vivace
23. 2. Lyrical Waltz
24. 3. Polka
25. 4. Career. Presto
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
26. 1. Allegro con brio
27. 2. Scherzo. Allegro molto – Trio. Meno allegro
28. 3. Adagio
29. 4. Finale. Allegro
Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, B 155
30. 1. Allegro, ma non tanto
31. 2. Dumka. Andante con moto
32. 3. Scherzo (Furiant). Molto vivace
33. 4. Finale. Allegro
Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B / Act 3
34. “Hojotoho! Hojotoho!” – Ride of the Valkyries
35. “Schützt mich und helft in höchster Not!”
36. “Nicht sehre dich Sorge um mich”
37. “Steh, Brünnhild'”
38. “Wo ist Brünnhild’, wo die Verbrecherin?”
39. “Hier bin ich Vater: gebiete die Strafe!”
40. “Wehe! Weh! Schwester, ach Schwester!”
41. “War es so schmählich, was ich verbrach”
42. “Nicht weise bin ich, doch wusst’ ich das eine”
43. “So tatest du, was so gern zu tun ich begehrt”
44. “Du zeugtest ein edles Geschlecht”
45. “Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind”
46. “Denn einer nur freie die Braut”
47. “Loge, hör! Lausche hieher!”
Founded in 1994, the Verbier Festival is a high-profile musical event held each summer in the resort town of Verbier, Switzerland. The international festival has featured energetic performances by many celebrated musicians, such as Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Bryn Terfel, Yuja Wang, Mikhail Pletnev, Malena Ernman, and Daniil Trifonov, among many other guest artists. This four-CD set from Deutsche Grammophon presents concertos, chamber works, and operatic and vocal music, bristling with the excitement of live performance. Presented in a hardcover booklet, the package offers complete performances of works by Tchaikovsky, Berio, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Tsfasman, Brahms, and Dvorák, as well as the final act of Die Walküre by Wagner, so much of the music will be familiar to mainstream audiences, if not all casual classical listeners. Of course, the key to enjoying this set is a desire to hear the live interactions of the musicians with each other and the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conducted by maestros Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Kurt Masur, Gábor Tákacs-Nagy, and Kent Nagano, which added considerable excitement to the concerts. Deutsche Grammophon’s recorded sound is superb throughout these recordings, despite the variables of time and venue, though Takács-Nagy’s humming in the Beethoven is distracting.
This limited 4-CD edition of previously unreleased live recordings from the Verbier Festival celebrates the festival’s 25th anniversary.
Featuring admired DG artists as Martha Argerich, Yevgeny Kissin, Mikhail Pletnev, Bryn Terfel, Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang and conductors Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Kent Nagano and Kurt Masur in performances of both core classics and lesser-known works from the orchestral, concert, chamber and operatic repertoires.
The beautiful hardcover box includes a 32 page booklet (French, English and German) with a note by Julian Sykes and a Foreword by the Festival’s founder, musical and executive director, Martin T:son Engström.