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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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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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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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Mahler - The Symphonies
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London Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein
Between 1971 and 1976 Humphrey Burton directed filmed concerts of Bernstein conducting the nine Mahler symphonies, along with DasLied von der Erde and the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth. Previous... — More…
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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
Great Voices of the Golden Age
Christa Ludwig (soprano), Rita Streich (soprano), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano)
With Vishnevskaya the odd-Russian-out, these 1960s films preserve the art of female singers mostly in the German Lied repertoire. Visual and sonic quality is variable, platform manners quaint,... — More…
Mahler - Attrazione d’Amore / Berio - Voyage to Cythera
Two documentaries by Frank Scheffer
…readers will enjoy Conducting Mahler, filmed during the 1995 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam. Its cast includes all the great Mahler maestros of our time, Scheffer's footage cleverly chosen to... — 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…