Sommernachtskonzert 2017 / Summer Night Concert 2017

Featuring

Christoph Eschenbach
Renée Fleming
Wiener Philharmoniker
Antonín Dvořák
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Engelbert Humperdinck
John Williams
Igor Stravinsky
Bedřich Smetana
Johann Strauss II (Jr.)

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Album & Artwork

The 2017 Summer Night Concert, featuring German, French, Russian, and Czech fairytales, as well as a contemporary Anglo-Saxon fantasy figure, was performed for the first time in front of Schönbrunn Palace.

Notable Performances

The Vienna Philharmonic is performing the Prelude to Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel live in concert for the first time at this Summer Night Concert.

Composition History

Dvořák's Carnival Overture is part of a three-part set of overtures titled Nature, Life and Love, which premiered in Prague before his departure for New York.

Composition History

Stravinsky's 1919 Firebird Suite, from which music is performed, was created in response to high demand for concert performances of his score.

Composition History

The Suite op. 66a from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, from which two numbers are performed, was created in 1899, six years after the composer's death.

Composition History

Rachmaninoff's songs, including the three performed here in orchestral arrangements, were almost all written before the Russian Revolution and his emigration to the United States.