A Life for Music and Peace / Ein Leben für die Musik und den Frieden (Euro Arts, 5 DVDs)

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This extensive DVD Box is dedicated to Maestro Kurt Masur, most famous not only as one of the greatest conductors but also for his significant role during the peaceful revolution in Germany and the fall of the wall in 1989.

Kurt Masur conducted the famous Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig for many years, later he became also Chief Conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

This DVD Box not only contains extraordinary concerts from The Gewandhaus and Verbier Festival, but also two documentaries about his role in the Peaceful Revolution, for the first time on DVD.

01. Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story: Mambo
02. Georges Bizet: Carmen: Prelude to Act I
03. Johannes Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52: excerpts
04. Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
05. Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 10 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 2
06. George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Oh, I can't sit down
There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York (from Porgy and Bess)
07. Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Girl from Ipanema
09. Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet Op. 110
10. Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
11. Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish'
12. Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian'
13. Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21
14. Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding March
15. Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
16. Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish'
17. Stanislaw Moniuszko: Halka: Mazurka
18. Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
19. Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor overture
20. Igor Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka
21. Pjotr Iljitsch Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien, Op. 45