EUROPAKONZERT 30 Anniversary Blu-ray Box 1991 – 2021 (31 BluRays) EuroArts

Emanuel Ax piano | Radek Baborákc horn | Daniel Barenboim piano | Lisa Batiashvili | Kolja Blacher violin | Cañizares guitar | Bruno Canino piano | Gautier Capuҫon cello | Sarah Chang violin | Plácido Domingo tenor | Vilde Frang violin | Christiane Karg soprano | …Read more
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado; Daniel Barenboim; Pierre Boulez; Gustavo Dudamel; Daniel Harding; Bernard Haitink; Mariss Jansons; Paavo Järvi; Zubin Mehta; Riccardo Muti; Simon Rattle; Kirill Petrenko

Region code
All (A1/B2/C3)
Picture format
Full HD 16:9
Sound format
PCM Stereo
dts-HD Master Audio
Release January 21, 2022
Total running time 2900 mins
Booklet notes English, German, French
No. of discs 31
Recording 1991-2021
Bonus A Portrait of Istanbul; Behind the Scenes of the Europakonzert 2001; A Portrait of Palermo; A Portrait of Lisbon; The European Concert in Olympic Athens; A Cultural Portrait of Prague; Interview with Sir Simon Rattle; Interview with Daniel Barenboim; Europakonzert 2019 Documentary; Interview with Bryn Terfel
Bonus subtitles English, French

The EUROPAKONZERT celebrates the founding of the Berliner Philharmoniker on 1 May 1882 and takes place in a different location of cultural history each year. In celebration of 30 years of EUROPAKONZERT, this box set features more than 48 hours of world-class classical music on 31 Blu-ray discs, including the 2020 concert from the pandemic year as well as the never-released anniversary concert from Berlin from 2021. Many conductors and famous soloists have participated in the Europakonzert over the years, thereby creating a memorable uniqueness in every concert. Additional and extensive documentaries about the respective European cities in which the concerts took place, enrich a large number of the included Blu-rays.

Disc 1: Europakonzert 2021 from Berlin, 79 mins ∙ Kirill Petrenko
Disc 2: Europakonzert 2020 from Berlin, 90 mins ∙ Kirill Petrenko ∙ Christiane Karg
Disc 3: Europakonzert 2019 from Paris, 103 mins ∙ Daniel Harding ∙ Bryn Terfel
Disc 4: Europakonzert 2018 from Bayreuth, 81 mins ∙ Paavo Järvi ∙ Eva-Maria Westbroek
Disc 5: Europakonzert 2017 from Cyprus, 118 mins ∙ Mariss Jansons ∙ Andreas Ottensamer
Disc 6: Europakonzert 2016 from Røros, 90 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Vilde Frang
Disc 7: Europakonzert 2015 from Athens, 91 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Leonidas Kavakos
Disc 8: Europakonzert 2014 from Berlin, 105 mins ∙ Daniel Barenboim
Disc 9: Europakonzert 2013 from Prague, 96 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Magdalena Kožená
Disc 10: Europakonzert 2012 from Vienna, 90 mins ∙ Gustavo Dudamel ∙ Gautier Capuçon
Disc 11: Europakonzert 2011 from Madrid, 97 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Cañizares
Disc 12: Europakonzert 2010 from Oxford, 90 mins ∙ Daniel Barenboim ∙ Alisa Weilerstein
Disc 13: Europakonzert 2009 from Naples, 97 mins ∙ Riccardo Muti ∙ Violeta Urmana
Disc 14: Europakonzert 2008 from Moscow, 79 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Vadim Repin
Disc 15: Europakonzert 2007 from Berlin, 103 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Lisa Batiashvili · Truls Mørk
Disc 16: Europakonzert 2006 from Prague, 98 mins ∙ Daniel Barenboim ∙ Radek Baborák
Disc 17: Europakonzert 2005 from Budapest, 109 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Leonidas Kavakos
Disc 18: Europakonzert 2004 from Athens, 102 mins ∙ Simon Rattle ∙ Daniel Barenboim
Disc 19: Europakonzert 2003 from Lisbon, 103 mins ∙ Pierre Boulez ∙ Maria João Pires
Disc 20: Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo, 90 mins ∙ Claudio Abbado ∙ Gil Shaham
Disc 21: Europakonzert 2001 from Istanbul, 103 mins ∙ Mariss Jansons ∙ Emmanuel Pahud
Disc 22: Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin, 86 mins ∙ Claudio Abbado ∙ Swedish Radio Choir ∙ Eric Ericson Chamber Choir ∙ Mikhail Pletnev
Disc 23: Europakonzert 1999 from Cracow, 95 mins ∙ Bernard Haitink ∙ Christine Schäfer · Emanuel Ax
Disc 24: 1998 from Stockholm, 100 mins ∙ Claudio Abbado ∙ Swedish Radio Choir ∙ Eric Ericson Chamber Choir ∙ Marie Alexis
Disc 25: Europakonzert 1997 from Versailles, 97 mins ∙ Daniel Barenboim
Disc 26: Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg, 90 mins ∙ Claudio Abbado ∙ Anatoli Kocherga · Kolja Blacher
Disc 27: Europakonzert 1995 from Florence, 87mins ∙ Zubin Mehta ∙ Sarah Chang
Disc 28: Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen, 87 mins ∙ Claudio Abbado ∙ Daniel Barenboim
Disc 29: Europakonzert 1993 from London, 90 mins ∙ Bernard Haitink ∙ Frank Peter Zimmermann
Disc 30: Europakonzert 1992 from Madrid, 104 mins ∙ Daniel Barenboim ∙ Plácido Domingo
Disc 31: Europakonzert 1991 from Prague, 78 mins ∙ Claudio Abbado ∙ Cheryl Studer · Bruno Canino

Repertoire
Mozart: Don Giovanni; Symphony No. 29 in A major, KV 201; Recitative and Rondo, KV 505: “Ch’io mi scordi di te ?” – “Non temer, amato bene”; Symphony No. 35 in D major, KV 385 ”Haffner“; Concerto No. 3 in G major for violin and orchestra, K 216; Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K. 415; Motetus „Exsultate jubilate o vos animae beatae“; Mass in C minor, K. 427; Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 2 in D major, K. 314; Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466; Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K. 482; Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 412 /514 (386b); Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 “Linz”; Notturno for four Orchestras

Verdi: La forza del destino: Ouverture; Don Carlos: “Io l’ho perduta!”; Quattro pezzi sacri; Overture to “Les Vêpres siciliennes“, “I vespri siciliani”

Berlioz: La damnation de Faust: Marche Hongroise; Invocation à la Nature; Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14; Le Corsaire, Ouverture; Les Troyens – Chasse royale et orage; Romeo et Juliette – Scène d´amour; Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); Symphony in C major “Great”

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 3; Die Walküre: „Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond“; Götterdämmerung; Der Fliegende Holländer: Overture; Prelude to ‘Parsifal’; Wesendonck – Lieder; Parsifal – Good Friday Spell; Die Walküre – Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music; Tristan und Isolde – Liebestod

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture; Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker; Symphonic Fantasia, op.18 „The Tempest“; Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64; Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55

Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps; Petrushka Burlesque in four Scenes; The Firebird; Symphony in Three Movements

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73; Fidelio: Overture, Op 72b; Romance for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G major, Op. 40; Romance for violin and orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 50; Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op.92; Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op.55 „Eroica”; Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19; Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125; “Egmont” Overture Op. 84; Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”; Leonore-Overture No. 3 in C-major, Op. 72; Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60; Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73; Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77; Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op. 15; Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op. 25; Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op. 102; Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98; Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68; Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn in B flat Major, Op. 56 a; Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor

Blacher: Orchestra Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 26; Fanfare for the Opening of the Philharmonie”

Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6: Allegro Maestoso

Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor; Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 “From the New World”; Biblical Songs, Op. 99; Symphony No 8 in G Major, Op. 88; Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet

Rachmaninoff: Vyes tabor spit: Aleko‘s Cavatina; Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27; Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin; Le Tombeau de Couperin

Debussy: Trois Nocturnes ; Pelléas et Mélisande – Suite / Extracts; Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; Chopin: Concert for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 “Spring Symphony“; Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 “Rhenish”

Haydn: Symphony in G major, Hob. I: 94 “Surprise”; Cello Concerto in C Major

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116; Violin Concerto No. 2

Bruch: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

Martucci: La canzone dei ricordi

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85; Falstaff, Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68

Chabrier: España; Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Nicolai: Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor

Rossini: “Semiramide” Overture; Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

J. S. Bach: “Largo” from Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005

Grieg: “Evening in the mountains”, Op. 68/4

Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Brustad: “Veslefrikk”

Weber: 2. Overture to the opera “Oberon”; Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No 1 in F minor, Op. 73

Koncz: Hungarian Fantasy on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Pärt: Fratres

Ligeti: Ramifications

Barber: Adagio for Strings

Mahler: Symphony No.4 in G major (Arrangement by Erwin Stein)

Ives: The Unanswered Questios

Penderecki: Emanations

Adams: Short Ride in A Fast Machine