Mariss Jansons Wiener PhilharMoniker RICHARD STRAUSS Nina Stemme Don Juan RICHARD WAGNER Wesendonck-Lieder JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 Mariss Jansons Wiener PhilharMoniker RICHARD STRAUSS With a programme dedicated to the second half of the 19th Don Juan century, Mariss Jansons, the Vienna Philharmonic and soprano Tone poem after Nikolaus Lenau for large orchestra, Op. 20 Nina Stemme offer a “superlative concert experience.” Kurier( ). A brilliant reading of Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan, which RICHARD WAGNER sparkled especially in the woodwinds, opened the concert. Written Five songs for female voice in 1888, this was only the second symphonic work by the 24-year- after poems by Mathilde Wesendonck WWV 91 old composer. The acclaimed premiere cemented Strauss’s later “Wesendonck-Lieder“ reputation as the outstanding champion of late Romantic works. In Orchestration by Felix Mottl his youthful exuberance he created a seductive musical monument to the erotic, mythical figure of Don Juan, which Mariss Jansons JOHANNES BRAHMS delivered in peerless quality. Symphony No. 1 C minor, Op. 68 In complementary style – and yet emotionally almost the opposite – were Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder pervaded by the aura Conductor Mariss Jansons of Tristan, sung by the outstanding Swedish soprano Nina Stemme. Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker They sounded deeply tender, almost lost in dreams, these “studies” Soprano Nina Stemme for the opera Tristan and Isolde. Singer, orchestra and conductor were all able to draw on their long experience of this score, with the Video Director Brian Large result that the songs emerge readily understandable and delivered in beautifully supple and delicate style. Length 95' To round off the concert there is the consciously down-to-earth symphonic answer of Johannes Brahms to Richard Wagner: his Shot in HDTV 1080 Symphony No. 1 in C minor. It is performed in all its complexity Cat. no. A045006470000 with wonderful solos and a deeply illuminating orchestral sound of unbelievably beautiful tone. “Jansons stimulates the philharmonic A co-production of powers and leads them to produce an unparalleled quality - UNITEL, ORF and ZDF/3sat magical.” (Der Standard) folder: luebbeke.com in cooperation with Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburg Festival and CLASSICA WORLD SALES: C Major Entertainment +49-(0)3030306464 All rights reserved · credits not contractual · Different territories [email protected] www.unitelclassica.com Photos: © ORF/Ali Schafler, Silvia Lelli.