VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

There is perhaps no other musical ensemble more consistently and closely associated with the history and tradition of European classical music than the Vienna Philharmonic. In the course of its over 160 year history, the musicians of this most prominent orchestra of the capital city of music have been an integral part of a musical epoch which due to an abundance of uniquely gifted composers and interpreters must certainly be regarded as unique.

Since its inception through Otto Nicolai in 1842, the fascination which the orchestra has exercised upon prominent composers and conductors, as well as on audiences all over the world, is based not only on a homogenous musical style which is carefully bequeathed from one generation to the next, but also on its unique structure and history. The desire to provide artistically worthy performances of the symphonic works of Mozart and Beethoven in their own city led to the decision on the part of the court opera musicians to present a "Philharmonic" concert series independent of their work at the opera, and upon their own responsibility and risk. The organizational form chosen for this new enterprise was democracy. Over the course of one and a half centuries, this chosen path of democratic self-administration has experienced slight modifications, but has never been substantially altered.

The Vienna Philharmonic has made it its mission to communicate the humanitarian message of music into the daily lives and consciousness of its listeners. In 2005 the Vienna Philharmonic was named Goodwill Ambassador of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and since 2006 the orchestra has also been Ambassador for the Phonak initiative "Hear the World".

For further information, please visit www.wienerphilharmoniker.at

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A TO Z OF CONDUCTORS	8.558087-90
ABBADO DOCUMENTARY (PAL)	DV-DOCABB
BACH, J.S.: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Karajan) (1952-1953)	8.111053-54
BEETHOVEN / WAGNER: Hans Knappertsbusch in Concert, 1962	DVUS-CLHK62
BEETHOVEN: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Modl, Windgassen, Furtwangler) (1953)	8.111020-21
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Triple Concerto (Weingartner) (1937-1939)	8.110878
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 / BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 (NTSC)	2072058
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Gieseking) (1939, 1934)	8.111112
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Weingartner) (1935, 1938)	8.110856
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 (Weingartner) (1933, 1936)	8.110956
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 (Weingartner) (1936)	8.110862
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 / Coriolan Overture (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 2)	8.110995
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 / Overtures (VPO, BBC SO, LSO, Walter) (1930-1938)	8.111032
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 (Weingartner) (1935)	8.110863
BOHM, Karl: In Rehearsal and Performance (NTSC)	2072188
BOULEZ, Pierre: In Rehearsal (PAL)	100290
BRAHMS: Deutsches Requiem (Ein) (Schwarzkopf, Hotter, Karajan) (1947)	8.111038
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 / Haydn Variations (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 5)	8.110998
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto / WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll (Furtwangler, Comm. Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 6)	8.110999
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 (NTSC)	2012756
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 (NTSC)	2072018
CONDUCTING MAHLER / I HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH THE WORLD (NTSC)	DVD9DS11
GREAT VIOLINISTS	8.110980-81
HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH AT WIENER FESTWOCHEN 1963	DVUS-CLHK63
HENZE: L'Upupa	2053929
JOSE CARRERAS COLLECTION (Int'l Edition) (NTSC)	101415
JOSE CARRERAS COLLECTION: Frankfurt Concert with Abbado (1992) (NTSC)	102029
KARAJAN, Herbert von: Protrait (A) (PAL)	100252
KNAPPERTSBUSCH AT THE WIENER FESTWOCHEN 1962 (NTSC)	DVWW-CLHK62M
KNAPPERTSBUSCH AT THE WIENER FESTWOCHEN 1963 (NTSC)	DVWW-CLHK63M
LEHAR: Land des Lachelns (Das) (Ackermann, Schwarzkopf) (1953) and excerpts from Lehar Operettas	8.111016-17
LEHAR: Lehar Conducts Lehar (1947)	8.110857
LEONARD BERNSTEIN ANNIVERSARY BOX (NTSC)	2057068
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES - Sampler 2005-2006 (NTSC)	2020058
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES - Sampler 2005-2006 (NTSC) (US version)	2020056
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES - Sampler 2007 (NTSC)	2020078
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES - Sampler 2007 (US version) (NTSC)	2020076
MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder / Symphony No. 4 (Ferrier) (1945, 1949)	8.110876
MAHLER: Lied von der Erde (Das) (Walter) (1936-1938)	8.110850
MAHLER: Lied von der Erde (Das) / Ruckert-Lieder (Ferrier) (1952)	8.110871
MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 (Walter) (1938)	8.110852
MOZART: Clarinet Concerto / Symphony No. 25 (NTSC)	2072088
MOZART: Clemenza di Tito (La) (Salzburg Festspiele, 2003) (NTSC)	DVWW-OPCLETI
MOZART: Cosi fan tutte (Salzburger Festspiele, 1983) (NTSC)	DVWW-OPCFTSF
MOZART: Le Nozze di Figaro	DV-CLOPNDF
MOZART: Le Nozze di Figaro	DVUS-CLOPNDF
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 17 / Symphony No. 39 (NTSC)	2072098
MOZART: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (Nos. 22, 23, 24) (Buchbinder) (NTSC)	2055898
MOZART: Piano Concertos, Vol. 2 (Nos. 14, 20, 25) (Buchbinder) (NTSC)	2055908
MOZART: Serenades Nos. 10 and 13 (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 1)	8.110994
MOZART: Symphony No. 40 / BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto (Furtwangler, Comm. Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 3)	8.110996
MOZART: Zauberflote (Die) (The Magic Flute) (NTSC)	DVWW-CLOPMF
MOZART: Zauberflote fur Kinder (Die) (Salzburg Festival, 1982) (NTSC)	DVWW-OPMFC
OPERA HIGHLIGHTS, Vol. 1 (NTSC)	102047
PUCCINI / BERIO: Turandot (Salzburg Festival, 2002) (NTSC)	DVUS-OPTURSFR
PUCCINI / BERIO: Turandot (Salzburg Festival, 2002) (PAL)	DV-OPTURSF
PUCCINI: Boheme (La) / Madama Butterfly / PUCCINI / BERIO: Turandot	2.103004
ROSSINI: Cenerentola (La) (Salzburg Festival, 1988) (NTSC)	100215
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 / SCHUMANN, R.: Manfred Overture (Bernstein) (NTSC)	2072168
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 'Great' / Mass No. 6 in E flat major (NTSC)	2072108
STRAUSS I and II: Johann Strauss Gala (NTSC)	100025
STRAUSS I and II: Johann Strauss Gala (PAL)	100024
STRAUSS II, J.: Fledermaus (Die) (Vienna State Opera / Krauss) (1950)	8.110180-81
STRAUSS, R.: Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg Festival 1965)	DV-CLOPAAN
STRAUSS, R.: Rosenkavalier (Der) (Lehmann, Schumann) (1933)	8.110191-92
STRAUSS, R.: Rosenkavalier (Der) (Reining, Jurinac, Kleiber) (1954)	8.111011-13
STRAUSS, R.: Rosenkavalier (Der) (Salzburg, 2004) (NTSC)	DVWW-OPROKA
STRAUSS, R.: Salome (Goltz, Patzak, Krauss) (1954)	8.111014-15
TCHAIKOVSKY / BEETHOVEN: Violin Concertos (Huberman) (1928, 1934)	8.110903
VERDI: Un ballo in maschera (PAL)	DV-CLOPUBIM
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC: NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 2002	DV-WPNK02
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC: NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 2003	DV-WPNK03
WAGNER, R.: Walkure (Die), Acts I and II (Ring Cycle 2) (Bruno Walter) (1938)	8.110250-51
WAGNER: Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Die) (Schoeffler, Gueden, VPO, Knappertsbusch) (1950-1951)	8.111128-31
WAGNER: Overtures (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 4)	8.110997
WAGNER: Walkure (Die) (Modl, Rysanek, Furtwangler) (1954)	8.111056-58