Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic under the stars on medici.tv

Again this summer, medici.tv – enjoying its fifth anniversary this year – enables music lovers from around the world to join Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic under the stars as they perform the orchestra’s annual concert at Waldbühne, one of Europe’s most beautiful amphitheaters. Available for viewing at 2:00 p.m. EST on June 23, the concert will feature Rattle and his Berliners teaming with the great violinist Christian Tetzlaff for Mendelssohn’s ever-popular Violin Concerto, and performing Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony No. 9 with the Berlin Radio Choir and soloists Camilla Tilling, Nathalie Stutzmann, Joseph Kaiser and Dimitry Ivashchenko.
 
Every year, the Berlin Philharmonic performs for more than 20,000 people in the beautiful environs of Waldbühne, making this annual summer concert one of the most popular classical events in the world. Highlights of past medici.tv webcasts from Waldbühne with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic – still available for viewing – include the 2009 all-Russian concert starring pianist Yefim Bronfman, the 2007 concert with pianist Stephen Hough playing Rachmaninoff and the 2005 concert of French repertoire with the piano duo of Katia and Marielle Labèque. There are also exciting Waldbühne concerts in the medici.tv archive featuring Plácido Domingo, Mariss Jansons and Seiji Ozawa, among others.
 
 
 
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Critical praise grows for medici.tv with each passing month. The Toronto Star called the site “a seismic shift in the world of classical music,” and the Baltimore Sun said: “This is an amazing site for lovers of classical music.” According to Alex Ross’s blog, The Rest Is Noise, “The hits keep coming at medici.tv.”  Offering “treasures aplenty” was how Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly characterized the site, naming medici.tv as one of the web’s best classical experiences.
 
Since its official launch in May 2008, medici.tv has gained international recognition, bringing together a community of 120,000 music and arts lovers from 182 countries – who have watched over 20 million videos to date. In addition to offering live concert hall events that music lovers can experience on their computers and entertainment systems, medici.tv now offers a free application (available at the Apple App Store and for Android) that makes it possible to experience world-class artistry on iPads, iPhones and Androids. Consumers of Samsung Smart TVs can now access the medici.tv application – worldwide in 170 countries since March 1, 2013 – on the 2011 and 2012 models.
 
In addition to providing webcasts of more than 100 live concerts each year, medici.tv has partnered with the world’s top artists and music institutions to offer subscriptions that give music lovers the opportunity to watch more than 1,200 video-on-demand programs. They include concerts, operas, recitals, documentaries, master classes, artist portraits and archival material by such legendary musicians as Maria Callas, Glenn Gould, Yehudi Menuhin, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Rubinstein, Georg Solti and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
 
A reference library of opera productions has also been added to the medici.tv collection, including Don Carlo at London’s Royal Opera House starring Rolando Villazón and The Fairy Queen at Glyndebourne conducted by William Christie. Also new to the library is archival footage of Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan and Vladimir Horowitz, alongside master classes by Alfred Brendel and James Conlon.
 
Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic on medici.tv
 
June 23, 2013: 2:00 p.m. EST
Berlin, Germany: Waldbühne
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 – “Choral”
Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Camilla Tilling, soprano; Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto; Joseph Kaiser, tenor; Dimitry Ivashchenko, bass; Berlin Radio Choir; Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
Produced by’: EuroArts Music in co-production with RBB, NHK, SMG
 
 
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