Perhaps in search of a second revenue stream to complement its hugely popular New Year's Eve extravaganzas, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra here offers an outdoors "Summer Night Concert" performed in the gardens of Vienna's stolid Schönbrunn castle, with a Moon, Planets, Stars theme. Deutsche Grammophon's designers get points for the nice line drawing of the castle, placed in front of van Gogh's Starry Night. The idea of the concert, according to the booklet notes, came from none other than Seiji Ozawa, but after his ...
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Perhaps in search of a second revenue stream to complement its hugely popular New Year's Eve extravaganzas, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra here offers an outdoors "Summer Night Concert" performed in the gardens of Vienna's stolid Schönbrunn castle, with a Moon, Planets, Stars theme. Deutsche Grammophon's designers get points for the nice line drawing of the castle, placed in front of van Gogh's Starry Night. The idea of the concert, according to the booklet notes, came from none other than Seiji Ozawa, but after his health problems worsened the podium was filled by Franz Welser-Möst. The program contains just about the music you would expect, but there are a couple of noteworthy historical points. Performances of John Williams' Star Wars music are certainly not restricted to North America, but this recording marks the first time the score, or any music by Williams for that matter, has been performed by the august Vienna Philharmonic. Williams' monumental, rather impersonal style plays to...
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