Marjana
Lipovsek
(Altsolo)
Vienna Boys
Choir
Women's
Chorus of
the Wiener
Singverein
Bavarian
State
Orchestra
Markus Wolf
(violin
solo)
Zubin
Mehta |
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Recorded
live in the
Great Hall
of the
Vienna
Musikverein,
Sept. 2004
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Order number:
S 108 047
NT$950
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The end of a long
journey – the road to the Vienna
Musikverein
For some orchestras concert
tours are part of their normal
work schedule. However, for an
opera orchestra a tour with
symphonic programs is always
something unusual. The Bavarian
State Orchestra is considered to
be one of the most significant
of orchestras with the richest
of traditions in the
international opera world;
playing as we do, in one of the
most highly regarded opera
houses in the world. What on an
international scale is less
known, is that in addition to
our work in the orchestra pit,
we have a long and outstanding
tradition as a symphony
orchestra, performing with the
“Society of the Musical Academy”
(founded in 1811) in a similar
way to the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, under our own roof in
our own series of concerts; the
“Academy concerts” at the
Bavarian State Opera.
The European tour 2004 was
organised by the Bavarian State
Orchestra itself; alone the last
two concerts in the hall of the
Vienna Musikverein being
performed under the auspices of
the Bavarian State Opera. The
musicians had to sacrifice two
weeks of their annual holiday
from the beginning to the middle
of September to play in ten
different cities thirteen
concerts with varying programs.
There is most probably no place
more noble or rich in history
for the closing night of a
European tour such as this as
the Golden Hall of the Vienna
Musikverein. Its acoustics are
legendary, the history of the
building is a veritable
representation of European music
history – think only of the
scandal that there was when
Mahler himself conducted
performances of his own
symphonies!
It was with all this in mind
that we decided to record the
concert in Vienna, thus enabling
this period of intense music
making to be secured for future
reference.
Felix
Gargerle – Member of the
Bavarian State Orchestra,
Producer |
