Browse: DVD Video, Mahler (composer)
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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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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There is nothing inappropriate or anticlimactic about this performance…You can see the right emotions featured in Chailly’s face. His eyes are shut, Karajan-like, at the creation of the world,... — More…
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The keynote here is momentum, never forced except when it needs to feel that way...Right from the way Chailly flecks the short note of the cellos' opening arrhythmia, there's a superhuman level... — More…
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra - The First 5 Years
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Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini (piano) & Rachel Harnisch, Eteri Gvazava (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Eteri Gvazava (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orféon Donosiarra, Claudio Abbado
It's good to have this incandescent performance back. If you have the CDs, it’s still worth getting the DVD to see Abbado in action, and to hear the Resurrection in surround sound. — More…
Going Against Fate: Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6
A Film by Viviane Blumenschein
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman
The Gustav Mahler Celebration
Recorded live at Kaliště
Marita Solberg (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Offer, 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…