2019 New Year's Concert a/k/a An Evening with Broadway Melodies by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Kirill Petrenko at the Berlin Philharmonie. Features soprano Diana Damrau. Here is the program:
Gershwin, Girl Crazy Overture
Rodgers, “If I Loved You” from Carousel
Bernstein, “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story
Bernstein, West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Weill, “Foolish Heart” from One Touch of Venus
Weill, Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne
Sondheim, A Little Night Music: Send in the Clowns
Arlen, Over the Rainbow
Gershwin, An American in Paris tone poem.
Directed for TV by Torben Jacobsen. Released 2020, the disc has 5.1 dts sound. Grade: NA
What a relief to get something other than waltzes and fast polkas with which to celebrate! We usually exclude the New Year’s videos, but this is a distinguished program with a famous soloist in Diana Damrau, so we make an exception this time.
Here’s a clip from EuroArts:
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