New Year's Eve Concerts (bluray) / Abbado, Bpo
) | Label: EUROARTS Catalog: 2013504 Format: Abbado; Berliner Philharmoniker; Vengerov; Shaham; PletnevComposed by: Brahms; Ravel; Berlioz; Bizet; Rachmaninov; de Sarasate; Ravel; de Falla; Mozart; Rossini; Verdi; Tchaikovsky EuroArts’ “Claudio Abbado: New Year’s Eve” is a three-disc double celebration of both the late maestro and the annual ritual of the Berlin Philharmonic’s New Year’s concerts, here highlighting consecutive festivities from 1996-98. New Year’s 1996 – Dances and Gypsy Tunes features Russian virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov, New Year’s 1997 – A Tribute to Carmen, starred Anne Sofie von Otter, Bryn Terfel and Roberto Alagna, among others, and New Year’s 1998 – Songs of Love and Desire, starred Christine Schäfer, Simon Keenlyside, Marcelo Álvarez and legendary Italian Primadonna Mirella Freni.  Price: $117.98 |