New Year’s Eve Concert Silvesterkonzert 2017 (DVD)

With her flexible, slender but dark-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle’s side during the New Year’s Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss’s lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The programme also includes works by Dvořák, Stravinsky, Bernstein and Shostakovich and will create the perfect atmosphere for the New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Dvorak Carnaval-Ouvertüre op. 92
Stravinsky Pas de deux from Apollon musagete
Strauss Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland op. 56 No. 6; Zuneigung op. 10 No. 1; Morgen op. 27 No. 4; Wiegenlied op. 41 No. 1; Müttertändelei op. 43 No. 2
Bernstein 3 Dance Episodes from On the Town; Take Care of this House
Shostakovich The Golden Age-Suite op. 22a