Sommernachtskonzert 2021 / Summer Night Concert 2021 Daniel Harding & Wiener Philharmoniker

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901):
• 1 Verdi: I vespri siciliani: Overture 09:34
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: 
• 2 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Introduction - Allegro vivace - Variation I (Precedente) 00:28
• 3 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Tema - L'istesso tempo 00:19
• 4 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation II - L'istesso tempo 00:19
• 5 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation III - L'istesso tempo 00:25
• 6 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation IV - Più vivo 00:31
• 7 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation V - Tempo precedente 00:29
• 8 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation VI - L'istesso tempo 01:08
• 9 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation VII - Meno mosso, a tempo moderato 01:13
• 10 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation VIII - Tempo I 00:35
• 11 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation IX - L'istesso tempo 00:32
• 12 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation X - L'istesso tempo 00:54
• 13 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XI - Moderato 01:32
• 14 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XII - Tempo di minuetto 01:27
• 15 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XIII - Allegro 00:30
• 16 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XIV - L'istesso tempo 00:45
• 17 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XV - Più vivo scherzando 01:06
• 18 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVI - Allegretto 02:00
• 19 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVII - Allegretto 02:14
• 20 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVIII - Andante cantabile 02:45
• 21 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XIX - A tempo vivace 00:27
• 22 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XX - Un poco più vivo 00:35
• 23 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXI - Un poco più vivo 00:25
• 24 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXII - Un poco più vivo 01:40
• 25 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXIII - L'istesso tempo 00:52
• 26 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XXIV - A tempo un poco meno mosso 01:31
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
• 27 Beethoven: Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise" 03:57
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990): Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: 
• 28 Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: I. Prologue 04:30
• 29 Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: II. Somewhere 04:38
• 30 Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: III. Scherzo 01:26
• 31 Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: IV. Mambo 02:46
• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934):
• 32 Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12 03:54
• Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957):
• 33 Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11: I. Intermezzo 04:32
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918):
• 34 Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L 86 11:10
• Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934):
• 35 Holst: The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity 08:30
• Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825 - 1899):
• 36 Jr.: Wiener Blut, Walzer, Op. 354 09:34
• Total Runtime 01:29:13

Info for Sommernachtskonzert 2021 / Summer Night Concert 2021

The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is the world's biggest annual classical open-air concert and will take place in the magical setting of the Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna on June 18, 2021. The theme for this year is Fernweh and includes musical favorites from Bernstein, Verdi, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, Elgar, Debussy and Holst. It will also include many fantastic Summer Night Concert debuts: SNC debut by pianist Igor Levit & British conductor Daniel Harding. The pianist’s first release of an orchestral recording. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Vienna Philharmonic’s first ever performance of this piece, as well as the Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite. the concert is broadcast on TV and radio in more than 60 countries, and thus reaches an audience of millions. The Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra founded in 1842 and consistently ranked among the finest in the world. Igor Levit is Musical America’s “Recording Artist of the Year 2020”, the 2018 Gilmore Artist and has been described by The New York Times as one of the “most important artists of his generation”. In November 2020 he was nominated for a Grammy in the category “Best Classical Instrumental Solo“. Daniel Harding CBE has conducted the Vienna Philharmonic since 2004 and will make his Summer Night Concert debut this year. A renowned opera conductor, he has led critically acclaimed productions at the Teatro alla Scala Milan, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and at the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festivals. Since 2007, he has been Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has worked for over 20 years.

Igor Levit, piano
Wiener Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding, conductor

Daniel Harding
Born in Oxford, Daniel Harding began his career assisting Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with the orchestra at the 1996 Berlin Festival.

He is Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Music Partner of the New Japan Philharmonic. He is Artistic Director of the Ohga Hall in Karuizawa, Japan and was recently honoured with the lifetime title of Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. His previous positions include Principal Conductor and Music Director of the MCO (2003-2011), Principal Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony (1997-2000), Principal Guest Conductor of Sweden's Norrköping Symphony (1997-2003) and Music Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (1997-2003).

He is a regular visitor to the Vienna Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle (orchestras of which he has conducted at the Salzburg Festival), Royal Concertgebouw, the Bavarian Radio, Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. Other guest conducting engagements have included the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Oslo Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Orchestras and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. Among the American orchestras with whom he has performed are the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2005 he opened the season at La Scala, Milan, conducting a new production of Idomeneo. He returned in 2007 for Salome, in 2008 for a double bill of Bluebeard’s Castle and Il Prigioniero, and most recently in 2011 for Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci, for which he was awarded the prestigious Premio della Critica Musicale “Franco Abbiati”. His operatic experience also includes Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic, The Turn of the Screw and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Festwochen and Wozzeck at the Theater an der Wien. Closely associated with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, he has conducted new productions there of Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and Le nozze di Figaro. In the 2012/13 season he returned to la Scala for Falstaff and made his debuts at both the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin and at the Wiener Staatsoper with Der Fliegende Holländer. This season he will conduct the Concentus Musicus Wien at the Melk Festival in Handel’s Israel in Egypt and the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Masaot ‘Clocks Without Hands’ with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, Cologne and Luxembourg.

His recent recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Mahler Symphony No. 10 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra have both won widespread critical acclaim. For Virgin/EMI he has recorded Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brahms’ Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra (winner of a Grammy Award for best opera recording), Don Giovanni and The Turn of the Screw (awarded the “Choc de l'Année 2002”, the “Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros” and a Gramophone award) both with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; works by Lutosławski with Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and works by Britten with Ian Bostridge and the Britten Sinfonia (awarded the 'Choc de L'Annee 1998”).

In 2002 he was awarded the title Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2012 he was elected a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Booklet for Sommernachtskonzert 2021 / Summer Night Concert 2021