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New, Offer, Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Sir Simon Rattle's farewell with Mahler's Sixth
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... — More…
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Offer, Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-7
Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 2003-2009
Eteri Gvazava (soprano) & Anna Larson (mezzo), Anna Larsson (contralto), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orféon Donosiarra, Arnold Schoenberg Choir Vienna & Tölzer Knabenchor, Claudio Abbado
Offer, Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
It would be easy to make a journalistic meal out of the way a drained Abbado holds his hand on his heart in the everlasting-seeming half minute's silence at the end of this Mahler Six. But there's... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
The Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... — More…
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New, Offer, Claudio Abbado: The Last Years
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Orchestra Mozart, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado
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. — More…
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... — More…
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
His approach is characteristically thoughtful...As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative... — More…
Music is the language of the heart and soul
A portrait of Mariss Jansons
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Mariss Jansons
Most valuable is the footage of his father, conductor Arvid Jansons, and of his own early days as a Herbert von Karajan protege...Of Jansons's humanity and penetrating gifts as a conductor we... — More…