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Summer-night Concert from Vienna

Katie Derham

Dominic Best

Michael Beyer

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Summer Night Concert from Vienna: 2012

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Summer Night Concert from Vienna

06/07/2012

2012

BBC Four - Summer Night Concert from Vienna, 2012

Works by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Ponchielli, Richard Strauss, Debussy and Mussorgsky.

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs music by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Ponchielli, Richard Strauss, Gimenez, Debussy and Mussorgsky in the gardens of the Schonbrunn Palace.

Katie Derham introduces the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing its Summer Evening Concert in the grounds of Vienna's great baroque jewel, the Schonbrunn Palace. The celebrated Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel presents an exciting mix of orchestral showpieces by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Ponchielli, Richard Strauss and Gimenez. Dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet bring Debussy's great depiction of the sea, La Mer, to life together with Mussorgsky's exotic Dance of the Persian Slaves. The concert ends with music by the Viennese waltz king Johann Strauss.

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Spectacular summer-night concerts from the grounds of the Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna.

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