Berlin Finale

" Nous tenons entre nos mains un témoignage historique absolument unique. "
Fritz J. Raddatz, essayiste et journaliste …

Publié en 1947 en Allemagne, vendu à plus de 100 000 exemplaires, Berlin finale est l'un des premiers best-sellers post-Seconde Guerre mondiale. Une œuvre passionnante, haletante, audacieuse, qui a su, alors que l'Europe se relevait à peine de la guerre, décrire dans toute sa complexité le rapport des Berlinois au nazisme.
Jusqu'alors inédit en France, un roman-reportage brillant qui nous raconte, à travers les destins d'une poignée de résistants, les derniers jours de Berlin avant sa chute. Un texte majeur, un Vintage événement.

This is an excellent spoof/satire of all things American with a side swipe at impoverished European royalty and the operetta genre to boot. Deborah Riedel is absolutely magnificent both in her acting and her singing. Her intentional horribly bad American accent in German is absolutely hilarious and is exactly the way so many Americans speak German although never so completely and swiftly. Yet when she sings, her German, of course, is impeccable and unaccented for, after all, she is an opera singer and will go only so far to dumb down.

This 9-CD box set features the complete Bruckner Cycle of Daniel Barenboim and his Staatskapelle Berlin. This set is timed to coincide with a complete Cycle performance at Carnegie Hall in January which marks not only Barenboim's 60th anniversary at the hall, but also the first time a complete Cycle has been performed there in one season. New booklet notes on the repertoire and on Barenboim's and the Staatskapelle Berlin's congenial work together complete the package.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 including the world premiere of the latest scholarly revision of the fourth movement that the composer left unfinished at his death.