The best Carmina Burana on DVD - a classical music 'must have'!

A joyful celebration welcoming the New Year with one of the best orchestras in the world, the Gala from Berlin 2004 presents the outstanding Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle with Carl Orff's well known Carmina Burana as well as Beethoven's Leonore Overture No.3 and Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

Carmina Burana is intensely dramatic and one of the twentieth century's most widely performed works for chorus and orchestra.

Simon Rattle is a musical force of nature and the interaction between his unique, varied musical gifts and the great performing traditions of the Berliner Philharmoniker is one of the most exciting features of our present cultural life.

The soprano Sally Matthews, the tenor Lawrence Brownlee and the baritone Christian Gerhaher made this evening into an extraordinary event. Christian Gerhaher is one of the most important baritones of our times.

Recorded 31 December 2004 at the Philharmonie Berlin.

Picture format DVD: NTSC  16:9
Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.0, DTS 5.0
Region code: 0
Booklet notes: English, German, French
Running time: 89 mins
FSK: 0