Berliner Luft: New Year's Concert 1997

One of the things DVD can do is capture the sense of an occasion: Berliner Luft admirably gives us the feeling of how it was to be at this 1997 gala in the Unter den Linden State Opera of a reunited Berlin. Daniel Barenboim gives us a mixture of light and very light music; the weightiest items here are the duet 'La ci Darem' from Mozart's Don Giovanni performed with charm and energy by Dorothea Roeschmann and Rene Pape and Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Cappricioso given with real fire by the young violinist Raphael Christ. Much of the rest of the programme is standard German lightweight cheerfulness--with songs such as 'Untern Linden' Gluhwurmchen-idyll' and 'Berliner Luft'--but Barenboim also gives us a couple of slightly rarer items: Shostakovich's 'Tahiti Trot' an endlessly inventive paraphrase of 'Tea for Two' and Kurt Weill's celebratory 'Berlin im Licht' performed with aplomb by the gravel-voiced HK Gruber. All this accompanied by cutaways of waltzing couples and magicians moving among them doing interesting things with cards and handkerchiefs...














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