Antonio Pappano Plays & Explains Sergei Rachmaninoff: Live from the Semperoper Dresden

They play it to a standard that’s in line with their standing as one of the world’s special orchestras – silky strings, wonderfully blended woodwind chording, and a brass section to match anyone’s... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: 8024267648
Label: EuroArts

BBC Music Magazine

February 2019

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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Antonio Pappano

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Antonio Pappano and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden are presenting a symphonic work with particular relevance for Dresden: Rachmaninoff‘s Symphony No. 2, which was written during the composer‘s years at the Saxon residency.

The Petersburg premiere of Rachmaninoff’s 1st Symphony became a fiasco. This rejection, by the public and the critics, plunged the composer into a creative crisis. In 1906, Rachmaninoff moved to Dresden and composed his successful and highly dramatic Second Symphony.

Included on this DVD are the full concert performance with Maestro Pappano and Sächsische Staatskapelle and the documentary Sergei Rachmaninoff in Dresden.

It is the first time that Sächsische Staatskapelle performed Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No 2 under the baton of Antonio Pappano.

The documentary includes extensive archive material, photos, scores and posters from Dresden in the years between 1906 and 1920.

DVD Picture: 16:9 – NTSC

DVD Sound: PCM Stereo,

Language/Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean

Region code: 0 (worldwide)

Running time: 105 mins (62 mins Concert, 43 mins Documentary)

Production: 2018

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February 2019

They play it to a standard that’s in line with their standing as one of the world’s special orchestras – silky strings, wonderfully blended woodwind chording, and a brass section to match anyone’s anywhere…Pappano conducts with his trademark energy, avoiding excessive juice-extraction of the music’s late-Romantic idiom, and gives the orchestra plenty of time and space to deliver in their classy way

Antonio Pappano Plays & Explains Sergei Rachmaninoff

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