Festival Documents

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The Resounding Memory of the
Salzburg Festival

For more than 30 years, the Salzburg Festival has been publishing treasures from the ORF archive as well as video recordings of the Festival’s latest productions created by our exclusive audio-visual media partner UNITEL. In 1992, Gottfried Kraus began tirelessly combing through broadcasting archives andcollections of international music labels. Thanks to the careful restoration of the audio and video documents he found, Kraus was able to compile countless highlights into a resounding edition of Festival performances: 167 complete opera recordings, including nine world premieres, over 160 orchestral concerts, more than 100 recitals, 30 theatre productions, including eight Jedermänner, numerous concerts of chamber and church music, composer portraits, and much more. From the first recording of a Festival concert, Mozart’s Requiem in 1931, to Simon Stone’s production of Bohuslav Martinů’s The Greek Passion, which was awarded Best Performance at the 2023 Oper! Awards, the ever growing edition documents the diversity of the Salzburg Festival’s program and the range of extraordinary artistic achievements. Newly added to the catalogue are Krzysztof Warlikowski’s sensational interpretation of Macbeth with Asmik Grigorian, and Martin Kušej’s Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Raphaël Pichon. Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic can now be experienced on DVD and Blu-Ray with their Festival renditions of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, as well as Bruckner’s symphonies Nos. 4, 7, and 9, thus completing the edition of the composer’s symphonic works. Lastly, a memorable concert performance of Walter Braunfels’ Jeanne d’Arc, conducted by Manfred Honeck at the 2013 Festival, rounds out the new releases.
Markus Hinterhäuser · Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival