Europakonzert 2024 from Tsinandali
Live recording from the Amphitheatre Tsinandali, Georgia, 1 May 2024, 11:00am CEST
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Franz Schubert: Overture from Die Zauberharfe, D 644
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
“This concert will be the highlight of my life,” says Lisa Batiashvili. But this year's Europakonzert will not only be special for the Georgian-born artist: this is the first time that a top European orchestra has performed in Georgia, a candidate for EU membership. Lisa Batiashvili and Daniel Barenboim share an artistic friendship: "What fascinates me most about him is his seriousness, his respect and his love of music, which I can see and feel in him at every moment," says the violinist. In her native Georgia, they will perform Brahms' Violin Concerto. Daniel Barenboim also conducts Beethoven's Fifth. Tsinandali (Georgian: წინანდალი) is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, situated in the district of Telavi, 79 km east of Tbilisi. It is noted for the palace and historic winery-estate which once belonged to the 19th-century aristocratic poet Alexander Chavchavadze and which, since 2019, is the venue for the Tsinandali Festival.
TV Director: Henning Kasten
Duration: 100'
Recorded in HD
Produced by EuroArts Music International, ZDF, Mezzo, Medici, Les Film Figures Libres, arte
Progr. No.: 4729
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EuroArts Highlights
Smetana 200 - A Grand Gala Celebration
Celebrating Bedřich Smetana’s 200th anniversary 2024
Live signal available, 8 June 2024, 8:15 pm CET
From the Festival Hall in Litomysl, Czech Republic
Bedrich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) is regarded as the founder of Czech music. His father, a brewer to Count Waldstein, whose Renaissance castle situated close to the Festival Hall, had a natural gift for music and played in a string quartet and introduced the music to his talented son, Bedrich who soon played both violin and piano. His skills as a pianist were in great demand at the towns many soirées, and he enjoyed a hectic social life as a young man. He started early composing his own music both for piano, string quartet, orchestra, and later in life, opera. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Ma vlast (My Homeland), which portrays the historical legends and landscape of the composer’s native Bohemia. It contains the famous symphonic poem “Vltava”, also known by its English name “The Moldau”
In an entertaining gala show Bedrich Smetana is celebrated with orchestra-, string quartet- and opera music, and with soloists on the piano and violin. Introducing La Putyka new circus acrobats and the magnificent Ukraine sand artist Kseniya Simonova.
Czech Philharmonic
Jakub Hrusa, conductor
Jan Mráček, violin ∙ Ivo Kahánek, piano
Cirk La Putyka circus
Kseniya Simonova, Sand artist from Ukraine
Bedřich Smetana:
The Bartered Bride: Overture
Jiřinková polka
Grand Overture D Major
Furiant from Czech Dances II
Hakon Jarl
String Quartet No. 1 (1st Movement)
Dance of the Comedians
Z domoviny
Ma vlast (The Moldau)
TV Director: Kristian Løkken
Duration: approx. 90'
Produced by NordicStories
Progr. No.: 4765