Kurt Masur : gala concert on the occasion of his 80th birthday /

To celebrate his 80th birthday, Kurt Masur led the Gewandhaus Orchestra in a special gala concert in June 2007. For his birthday concert, Masur, currently principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France, chose a varied, celebratory programme with works b...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Performer), MDR-Chor Leipzig (Performer)
Other Authors:	Masur, Kurt (Conductor), Schmidt, Harald, 1957- (Performer, Singer), Smaczny, Paul (Producer), Wübbolt, Georg (Director), Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Dukas, Paul, 1865-1935, Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904, Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, Jobim, Antonio Carlos, Moniuszko, Stanisław, 1819-1872, Nicolai, Otto, 1810-1849, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
Format:	Video
Language:	German English
Language Notes:	The presentations before some works in the concert and the bonus film in German with English subtitles; Gershwin's There's a boat dat's leavin soon for New York sung in English.
Published:	[Leipzig] : EuroArts, 2007.
Series:	Classical music in video
Subjects:	Orchestral music. Orchestre, Musique d'. Streaming videos. Filmed performances. Nonfiction films. Films autres que de fiction. Spectacles filmés.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

Table of Contents:

Die lustingen Weiber von Windsor. Ouvertüre / Otto Nicolai (9:37)
Presentation, moderation (9:37)
Halka. Mazurka / Stanislaw Moniuszko (4:23)
Liebeslieder-Walzer : op. 52. no. 11: Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen mit den Leuten (1:06) ; no. 8: Wenn so lind dein Auge mir (2:02) / Johannes Brahms
Slavonic dance in E minor : op. 72 no. 2 / Antonín Dvorák (6:20)
Presentation (2:50)
Capriccio italien : op. 45 / Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky (15:42)
Presentation (2:26)
West Side story. Mambo / Leonard Bernstein (3:24)
Presentation (0:40)
Porgy and Bess. Oh, I can't sit down (1:41) ; There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York (4:48) (Harald Schmidt, soloist) / George Gershwin
Presentation (4:24)
L'apprenti sorcier / Paul Dukas (12:08)
Presentation (1:49)
Carmen. Prelude / Georges Bizet (2:53)
Presentation (0:57)
The girl from Ipanema / António Carlos Jobim (3:52).