Great Performances Great Performances is an award-winning television series dedicated to the arts. For over thirty years, the series has presented concerts, ballets, operas, documentaries, and plays. Great Performances has further marked its place in television history as one of the longest-running performing arts antholigies.
Great Performances: "Vienna Philharmonic Summer Concert 2009" Check local listings for broadcast times in your area.
The renowned Vienna Philharmonic presents an open-air concert
in the magnificent gardens of Austria's Imperial Schönbrunn
Palace. Daniel Barenboim leads the ensemble in a rousing
evening of works inspired by the night. Highlights include
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's hallmark "A Little Night Music,"
Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" (featuring
Maestro Barenboim as pianist) and the characteristically
Viennese "1001 Nights Waltz" by the Waltz King himself, Johann
Strauss. (CC, Stereo, HD)
