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O P E N I N G
C O N C E R T
WIENER PHILHARMONIKER
NIKOLAVS HARNONCOVRT
Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker
Franz Schubert / Anton Webern
Sechs Deutsche Tänze, D. 820
By courtesy of Universal Edition AG Wien
Josef StrauSS
Frauenherz – Polka mazur, Op. 166
Josef StrauSS
Delirien – Waltz, Op. 212
Josef StrauSS
Pêle-mêle – Polka schnell, Op. 161
Franz Schubert
Symphony in C major, D. 944
Directed by Michael Beyer
Length 95'
A production of ORF on behalf of UNITEL CLASSICA
in co-production with ZDF/Arte
in cooperation with Salzburg Festival
shot in HDTV 1080
Cat.no. A045005540000
The opening of the Salzburg Festival, for many regarded
as the world’s most renowned music festival,
is by tradition a high-profile event. In 2009, this
first concert given by the Wiener Philharmoniker
was conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The program
is, in honor of the 80 th birthday of the great
Austrian conductor (6 Dec. 2009), a purely Austrian.
Though it may seem unusual at first glance, under Harnoncourt’s
direction, the disparate works fuse into a moving,
slightly melancholy portrait of the Viennese dance in the
early 19 th century. The concert opens with Anton Webern’s
delicate orchestration of Schubert’s “Six German
Dances,” which segue into two polkas and a waltz by Josef
Strauß, the younger – and bolder – composer brother of
“Walzerkönig” Johann Strauß Jr. With this alternation of
bittersweet and brassy dances, the stage is set for Harnoncourt’s
staggering reading of Schubert’s “Great” C major
Symphony, in which the dance of death – so Viennese yet so
universal – seems to have served as the composer’s model.
This concert adds a new milestone to UNITEL CLASSICA’s
longtime partnership with the Salzburg Festival, as well
as with Harnoncourt and the Wiener Philharmoniker.
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