Gala from Berlin Grand Finales

The Berliner Philharmoniker celebrate the last day of the 20th century with Grand Finales in the first part of this extraordinary concert and herald the leap into the 21st century with an explosion of sparkling music in the second half of the programme For the Grand Finales Claudio Abbado conducts masterpieces like the final movement of Beethovens 7th Symphony excerpts from Stravinskys Firebird and the last movement of Mahlers 5th Symphony The worldfamous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer narrates from Arnold Schoenbergs Gurrelieder