Tonight: Welthits von Berlin bis Broadway

Renee Fleming,Klaus Florian Vogt,Staatskapelle Dresden,Christian Thielemann

Tonight: Welthits von Berlin bis Broadway
Format
Audio
Published
21 January 2014
ISBN
0028947924838

Tonight: Welthits von Berlin bis Broadway

Renee Fleming,Klaus Florian Vogt,Staatskapelle Dresden,Christian Thielemann

The Staatskapelle Dresden’s New Year’s Eve concert has become a much-loved fixture in the musical calendar. This year’s event, starring Christian Thielemann, Renée Fleming and Klaus Florian Vogt, will be released on both CD and DVD.

Steeped in tradition, the Dresden Semperoper has welcomed many prestigious figures to its podium, from Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner to the current Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann - a forward-thinking musician, but one who also has a healthy respect for the past. The Semperoper’s New Year’s Eve concert is a highlight of the holiday season and the perfect way for music-lovers to see out the Old Year and welcome the New. Broadcast live on ZDF in Germany and relayed by Unitel Classica to 27 different countries, it’s become a much-loved part of the seasonal festivities, its popularity due in large part to the fact that Thielemann and his orchestra deliver a finely balanced mix of the festive and the nostalgic, with touches of downbeat Weltschmerz amid the whirling waltzes.

This year’s programme, entitled Tonight, will take the audience on a dazzling journey from Berlin to Broadway, showcasing all the dynamism and drama of twentieth-century musical theatre: from kings of operetta Paul Abraham, Robert Stolz and Paul Lincke to masters of the musical Frederick Loewe, George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.

Thielemann will steer a course between operetta classics such as Two Hearts in Waltz Time and Flower of Hawaii, and Broadway hits such as “Maria” and “Tonight” from West Side Story, stopping off along the way to perform numbers from less well-known works such as Gershwin’s Strike Up The Band, a satire in which the US declares war on Switzerland over the price of cheese!

Sharing the stage with Thielemann this year are two of the greatest singers of our time, soprano Renée Fleming and tenor Klaus Florian Vogt - ideal choices as far as the conductor is concerned. “It’s wonderful to celebrate New Year’s Eve with friends,” he says. “I’ve worked with both of them many times and it’s always a delight, so I couldn’t ask for better company on the last night of the year.”

“The great thing about these operettas and musicals is that as well as the snappy rhythms and numbers in three-quarter time, there are always serious undertones too,” says Thielemann. “So yes, they’re perfect for a New Year’s Eve celebration, but because they’ve been part of the classical repertoire for so long now, they also give us a kind of timeless insight into human hearts and souls.”

The recording is a ZDF production in co-production with Unitel. Broadcast date: 31 December 2013, live on ZDF from 5.30pm (CET)

Track listing:
Abraham:

Die Blume von Hawaii (from Die Blume von Hawaii)

Berlin, I:

Anything you can do I can do better (from Annie Get Your Gun)

Bernstein:

Maria (from West Side Story)

Tonight (from West Side Story)

Gershwin:

The Lorelei

Strike up the Band Overture

Fascinatin’ Rhythm

Künneke, Eduard:

Dance Suite, Op. 26: Intermezzo

Ich bin nur ein armer Wandergesell (from Der Vetter aus Dingsda)

Leux:

Es leuchten die Sterne

Lincke:

Grigri: Overture

Berliner Luft March

Loewe, F:

I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)

May, H:

Ein Lied geht um die Welt

Stolz, R:

Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein (from Der Favorit)

Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt (from Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt)

Tauber:

Du bist die Welt für mich

Weill, K:

Foolish Heart (from One Touch of Venus)

 

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