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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Music Videos - Classical |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014381377927 |
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Customer Reviews of Valery Gergiev Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Prokofiev, Schnittke & Stravinsky
Awesome Performance of Schnittke! I have to admit, I bought this DVD for the Schnittke, being a viola player myself. A performance of his work is pretty hard to come by and a DVD of this particular work makes it even better. After seeing this DVD, all I could say is WOW!
Yuri Bashmet is without a doubt an amazing violist and seeing him playing a work that was written for him and also meant a great deal for him is truly special. I was moved by his performance and after seeing this performance it has given me even more appreciation for this piece.
In my personal opinion, no other violist plays the Schnittke as well as Bashmet does. He plays this work with every ounce of emotion, feeling, and intensity in his body that makes the work sound very powerful, compelling and moving. Bashmet owns this piece! His lengthy interview also gave tremendous insight to his relationship with the composer and this great piece of music.
The performances of the other pieces are quite good, in particular the Firebird. The camera work is also first rate with superb angles and impeccable timing. Truly a highly recommendable DVD.
Outstanding concert, beautifully filmed
Taped at the 2000 Salzburg Festival, this wonderful all-Russian concert shows conductor Valery Gergiev as his most magnetic, here with the Vienna Philharmonic. The whole program is excellent, but the prize is the Schnittke "Viola Concerto" (1985), performed with great intensity by its dedicatee, Yuri Bashmet.
The concerto uses Bashmet's name (B-flat, A, E-flat, C, B-natural, E-natural) as its starting point for forty minutes of music, filled with unusual effects and ending with a quiet, death-haunted passage that shows the violist at his absolute best. The music is strikingly conceived and just as strikingly performed, with the Vienna musicians seeming to relish the challenge of a relatively unfamiliar work.
The Prokofiev begins swiftly, and has a nice momentum throughout. (Although how the musicians follow Gergiev's fluttering hand movements is a mystery.) The Stravinsky will probably be the favorite of many viewers, with Gergiev in white-hot form and the orchestra doing a sensational job with the work's brilliant colors.
Brian Large has filmed all this with clarity and lots of attention to details, including the sweat dripping onto Bashmet's viola at the end of the Schnittke, and Gergiev's positively evil-looking gaze in passages of "The Firebird." Sound and picture quality are superb.
This is probably one of the best filmed classical concerts on the market at the moment, perhaps a model of how these should be done.
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