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Blu-Ray Video, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
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Special offer. Schumann at Pier2: The Symphonies
A concert film by Christian Berger
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi
This is the sort of set that makes me grateful that classical recordings are still being made. As a refresher course in Schumann symphonies, you won't find anything better...I can't imagine... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (HRSinfonie Orchester), Paavo Järvi
Järvi has clearly thought long and hard about both scores and his orchestra backs him up marvellously...Collectors who are following this Järvi cycle – the only cycle so far on Blu-Ray, I believe... —
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Special offer. Brahms: The Complete Symphonies
and The Brahms Code: A Music Documentary by Christian Berger
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Paavo Järvi
These performances are all first class... A filmed Brahms cycle of splendid performances. —
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Camilla Tilling (soprano), Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (HR-Sinfonie Orchester), Paavo Järvi
In general, Järvi favours broad tempos - perhaps a little too broad in the opening movement of the Second Symphony...But the First Symphony...is wholly successful in its balance of detail and... —
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Genia Kühmeier (soprano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchstra (HR-Sinfonie Orchster), Paavo Järvi
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (HR-Sinfonie Orchester), Paavo Järvi
the Eighth is - as with all the other performances in the cycle - highly accomplished. Less so the filming...Overall the Seventh belongs with the other mid-period symphonies as the high point... —
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (HR-Sinfonieorchester), Paavo Järvi
No previous instalment in Paavo Järvi's Mahler cycle prepared me for the raw passion of this Ninth. —
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Special offer. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Valentina Farcas (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone), State Choir Latvija, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Paavo Järvi
A sense of momentum as well as occasion lends an unusual spirit of celebration, quite alien to both the sombre tread of most symphonic performances and the carefully cultivated archaism of ‘period’... —
