Birthday Concert for Pope Benedict XVI [DVD Video]
by Gustavo Dudamel
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Actor: Hilary Hahn, Stuttgart Radio Symphony OrchestraDirector: Gustavo Dudamel
Brand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
DVD Reviews of Birthday Concert for Pope Benedict XVI [DVD Video]
DVD Review: {~~}==# HILARY HEAVENLY - the VIOLIN POPE PLAYS FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI MOZART'S 3rd VIOLIN CONCERTO - WITH MUCH SOUL & SPIRIT
Summary: 5 Stars
CONGRATULATIONS to Pope BENEDICT XVI - and CONGRATULATIONS to ALL PARTICIPANTS who realised this wonderful VATICAN CONCERT!
It must have been a heavenly decision that two so great young musicians, the wonderful, graceful Violinist HILARY HAHN and the very lively, very spirited conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, were chosen to perform a piece of POPE BENEDICT XVI most favourite composer WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART upon his explicit wish for his 80th Birthday as well as pieces by GABRIELI and DVORAKS symphony No. 9 "From the New World". I think that there can hardly be a greater present for POPE BENEDICT'S 80th Birthday than the remarkable musical performance and musical experience of these two outstanding artists together with the truly great RADIO-SIMPHONY ORCHESTRA STUTTGART!
Even the first beats of this concerto show that this is a very fine, mature and well thought through interpretation of the G major violin concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (violin concerto No. 3, K. 216). Only 26 years old conducter GUSTAVO DUDAMEL makes you feel the great happiness with which he manages to conduct the orchestra in these musical pieces with such enthusiasm which vitalises the interpretation and gives it the "freshness" and liveliness which are needed for these pieces. Only 27 years old HILARY HAHN appears in her usual seriousness - and thus is the calm in the "storm" which is erupted by conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL with his very agile and lively way of conducting; on the contrary, HILARY HAHN seems to "internalise" all her feelings and emotions for this music and is, even in this special concert, all the calmness and focus on this music herself, almost as if this was a concert like "any" concert. However, from this "internalisation" and the deep focus on the musicality of this concerto HILARY HAHN'S very grand, very serious violin play which she excersises with so much soul and so spirited and animation which make her violin play and her musicality a well thought through and very mature interpretation of this great Mozart piece. HILARY HAHN'S natural violin play, which bears her highly precise intonation, manages very easily to "hide" all difficulties and complexities - a divined violin play which is carried by HILARY HAHN'S very distinctive, beautiful and discreet and very fine and crystally-clear vibrato which makes HER violin tone truly clearly and in all its beauty and in all its mighty recognisable from the one of other violinists.
Something very special about this performance of HILARY HAHN'S 3rd violin concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is that HILARY HAHN plays cadenzas written by herself in the 1st and 2nd movements of this concerto, and these cadenzas - which will no doubt be recognised by each classicist by first listing - are none of the known cadenzas; HILARY HAHN performed and even improvised the cadenzas she had composed just for this birthday concert of Pope BENEDICT (which are cadenzas she normally does not perform in this Mozart concerto as I found out (on May 22nd, 2007, in Harmonie Heilbronn). So, HILARY HAHN now also "CADENCES" nun herself! BRAVISSIMO HILARY!! THANK YOU - now it's also you who "free" us from those old and "antiquated" cadenzas which, too, are very nice to listen to if they are performed by virtuosos with much spirit and soul, but which somehow seem kind of "worn-out" or even "banal"! So, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH HILARY!!! There is now again NEW LIFE in one of the MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTOS!! HILARY HAHN'S CADENZAS are truly very well phrased and articulated and played by her with her usual perfection and deep soul, but, admittedly, the seem very "particular" or characteristic for themselves in view of such a Mozart violin concerto (this, however, shall not lower ones sights of this beautiful music - it's just the opposite!) and for the classicist they may seem a bit unusual, unfamilar or unaccustomed and spontaneuos, and audiences might at first be a bit surprised about HILARY'S own cadenzas, which in fact are of full liveliness, freshness, energy, effortlessness and virtuosity while HILARY plays passages and phrases in them one would not necessarily expect like that by Mozart! Anyway, HILARY HAHN proves with these self-created and composed cadenzas, which she even improvised during the concert, that she is also outstanding - besides her superb violin play and her other artistic qualifications - in making compositions of her own musical ideas, and proves in her own self-confident artistic way what clearly exceptional position she has among other young violinist virtuosos. HILARY HAHN GIVES with these her OWN CADENZAS Mozart some new characteristics and, thus, NEW LIFE, which shows that besides her excellent function as a solist her artistic demands for herself are even much higher through her own musical creations, which do imply some certain musical imagination, than HILARY has shown us, her audiences, in her CD and DVD recordings so far. So, her artistic demands for herself now also include, besides her solist and chambermusic engagements, making compositions of her own new musical inspirations - HILARY HAHN simply wonderful! HILARY, PLEASE CONTINUE THIS DAS and, besides your self-created cadenzas for the Mozart violin concertos also write cadenzas for other violin concertos by other composers and please play them in concert halls as well, as we would really like to hear and listen to more of your beautifully self-created cadenzas! (Mayby you could write your own violin concerto?). In this context, I would like to emphasize that HILARY HAHN is especially brave - what even more proves her violinistic and musical talent as well as her highly developed technical skills - not only to perform completely practised and studied cadenzas, but that she even improvises them! I think that these self-composed and performed and partly improvised cadenzas by HILARY HAHN are certainly the "personal serenade" for Pope BENEDICT! One might really think so! However, it is only a bit of a pity that in some passages of these cadenzas but also in some parts during the whole concert the Vatican audiences disturb the performance by making some interruptive noise (this "noise" must certainly have been the silent applause for the wonderful violin play by HILARY HAHN!).
This is altogether a very emotional performance of the pieces recorded on this DVD, while also Dvorak's symphony "From the New World" was interpreted quite profoundly and mature, and I give all my best recommendations and STARS, which REACH INTO HEAVEN, for the pieces performed on this DVD, in particular for the 3rd violin concerto in G major by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART as performed by my VIOLIN FAVOURITE HILARY HAHN! This concert performance shall be a great pleasure for all fans and enthusiasts of POPE BENEDICT XVI, HILARY HAHN, GUSTAVO DUDAMEL as well as for all catholics and believers.
BRAVISSIMO, Amen!
Description of Birthday Concert for Pope Benedict XVI [DVD Video]
Filmed at the Vatican on April 16, 2007, this DVD reproduces the concert that formed the centerpiece of Pope Benedict XVI's 80th-birthday celebrations. Also included are the welcoming speeches and the Pope's words of thanks. The concert program, in part selected by the music-loving Pontiff himself, brings together two of classical music's brightest young stars for their first joint appearance-- American violinist Hilary Hahn and the young Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who was recently appointed Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mozart's sparkling G major Violin Concerto and Dvor?ák's stirring "New World" Symphony are two of classical music's best-loved masterpieces, neither of which had been recorded before by these artists. Their performances here received high critical acclaim in the press. This is a must-have memento for all admirers of Pope Benedict and a valuable musical document in its own right-- a DVD with great potential appeal to non-Catholic as well as Catholic music lovers, and to followers of the Holy Father who may otherwise have no connections to the classical music world.Classical Music CDs
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