Browse: DVD Video, Mahler (composer)
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: Symphony No. 9
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Claudio Abbado
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
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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Offer, Lucerne Festival Orchestra - The First 5 Years
Recommended
Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini (piano) & Rachel Harnisch, Eteri Gvazava (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
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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Offer, The Gustav Mahler Celebration
Recorded live at Kaliště
Marita Solberg (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Going Against Fate: Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6
A Film by Viviane Blumenschein
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman
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…
Offer, Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Diana Damrau & Petra Lang
Staatsopernchor & Staatskapelle Berlin, Pierre Boulez