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Сomposer: Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Title: Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
Release Date: 2017
Recorded live at the Concert Hall of KKL Luzern, 12–13 August 2016
Genre: Classical
Director: Ute Feudel
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Artist: Ricarda Merbeth, soprano (Magna Peccatrix), Juliane Banse, soprano (Una poenitentium), Anna Lucia Richter, soprano (Mater gloriosa), Sara Mingardo, contralto (Mulier Samaritana), Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano (Maria Aegyptiaca), Andreas Schager, tenor (Doctor Marianus), Peter Mattei, baritone (Pater ecstaticus), Samuel Youn, bass-baritone (Pater profundus); Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tölzer Knabenchor, Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Production/Label: Accentus Music GmbH
Duration: 01:32:57
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 22940 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1 /
Audio#1: Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3979 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: Italian LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
Size: 23.19 GB

Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony breaks the boundaries of the symphonic form in a world-embracing gesture. Riccardo Chailly is one of the staunchest performers of this work, and therefore it seemed appropriate in many ways that he chose this work for his inaugural concert as Claudio Abbado’s successor and new music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The artistic statement was combined with a deeply personal conviction: it should be a “tribute to Claudio,” the highly esteemed friend and colleague to whom Chailly, as he emphasizes, owes very much. On 12 August 2016, Claudio Abbado’s unfinished Mahler cycle with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra was completed in a breathtaking performance of the Mahler 8th, simultaneously heralding in a new era in Lucerne. (more…)

Title: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.9
Released Date: 2014
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Performers: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Production/Label: Accentus Music
Duration: 1:25:58
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio Codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 18001 kbps / 1920 * 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16: 9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4012 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: German, French, English, Korean, Japanese
Size: 22.6 GB

Theodor W. Adorno regarded Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 as “the first work of modern music”. Adorno’s teacher, Alban Berg, saw in it “the expression of a tremendous love for this world, a longing to live in peace and to savor Nature to its depths – before the arrival of Death. For it will inevitably come.” This live recording of the composer’s last completed symphony is part of an ongoing Leipzig cycle of Mahler’s symphonies. It confirms once more the Gewandhaus Orchestra’s reputation as an exemplary ensemble for the performance of Mahler’s music. The highest level of performance culture combined with a sharply contoured, transparent, polished, and detailed manner of playing, plus infectious verve and an unmistakable sound characterized by a darkly golden color – these are qualities responsible for the Gewandhaus Orchestra’s international reputation. Since the time of Bruno Walter, the orchestra has developed over the years a deep understanding of the works of Gustav Mahler, which in their collaboration with Riccardo Chailly has been continued.

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Ttitle: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.8
Released Date: 2011
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Performers: Erika Sunnegardh (Soprano), Ricarda Merbeth (Soprano), Christiane Oelze (Soprano), Lioba Braun (Alto), Gerhild Romberger (Alto), Stephen Gould (Tenor), Dietrich Henschel (Baritone), Georg Zeppenfeld (Bass) MDR Rundfunkchor, Chor der Oper Leipzig, GewandhausChor, Thomanerchor Leipzig, GewandhausKinderchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Production/Label: Accentus Music
Duration: 1:32:12
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 19789 kbps 1920 * 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16: 9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4047 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: German & Latin (original sung texts), German, English, French
Size: 20.24 GB

Mahlers Eighth Symphony is arguably the grandest and most ambitious piece of symphonic music ever written. The composer himself regarded it as his opus summum, and an incredible number of participants at the hugely successful Munich première in 1910 earned it the nickname Symphony of a Thousand. At Leipzigs International Mahler Festival 2011, Riccardo Chailly commanded almost 500 musicians, and the overwhelming result of their joint effort inspired the Leipzig-based and internationally renowned artist Neo Rauch to the painting for the cover of this Blu-ray. (more…)

Title: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 6 in A minor ‘Tragic’
Release Date: 2013
Genre: Classical
Director: Ute Feudel
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Artist: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Production/Label: Accentus Music
Duration: 01:26:24 + 00:18:26
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 18991 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4146 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, French
Size: 22.08 GB

“The audience knows that the performance of a Mahler symphony is not only a musical experience, but is also emotionally effective” (R. Chailly). This counts especially for Mahler’s enigmatic sixth symphony, an emotionally stirring challenge for both performers and listeners, whilst also being one of the most impressive works in musical history. Chailly’s interpretation with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is “intensely great” (Die Presse). “Chailly uncompromisingly considers this sixth symphony through the lens of modernity; looking forward, not retrospectively staying in ‘late romantic’. In this celebrated orchestra, all sections splendidly come together and fulfil an ‘open’ sound, conserving whilst respecting its original beauty.” (Salzburger Nachrichten)

“the playing of Chailly’s Gewandhaus Orchestra is unarguably superb and it is fair to say that not even Abbado or Boulez reveal more in the way of instrumental substrata…Mahler’s rural interludes glisten in decidedly novel fashion, sounding as much like Berio as Bruckner…It’s a sensational package in its way” –Gramophone

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Title: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Release Date: 2014
Genre: Classical
Director: Henning Kasten
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Artist: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Production/Label: Accentus Music
Duration: 01:13:36 + 00:27:33
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 22986 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4020 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, German, Korean, Japanese
Size: 22,46

As Riccardo Chailly points out, “The Fifth begins with a dark, gloomy, and tragic tone, but then is enlivened in the Scherzo and Adagietto, and eventually ends with a more positive character in the Finale – perhaps for the last time in Mahler’s life. The Adagietto is a revelation, a spiritual oasis. It is not an expression of pain, but rather Mahler’s declaration of love to Alma – a song without words.“ With the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chailly gives the piece an unsurpassed intensity of sound and emotional expression. He achieves a compelling arc of tension in which the symphony’s unique fascination unfolds. The Wiener Zeitung characterized Chailly’s interpretation as „impressive with powerful and unreserved intensity.“

“Chailly takes us on a journey from darkness to light…He’s a pleasure to watch, being neither over-demonstrative nor affectedly matter-of-fact. He looks like what he’s conducting and one sense that the orchestra agrees. If the rest of this projected second Chailly Mahler cycle is as good as this, then I suspect we have treats aplenty in store.” –Gramophone

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Title: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.2 ‘Resurrection’
Release Date: 2011
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Performers: Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Christiane Oelze (Soprano), Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-Soprano), MDR Rundfunkchor, Berliner Rundfunkchor, GewandhausChor

Production/Label: Accentus Music
Duration: 1:35:33
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio Codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 19908 kbps / 1920 * 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16: 9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3770 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, German, French
Size: 20.79 GB

An exhilarating Symphony No. 2 by Mahler, conducted by Riccardo Chailly in Leipzig.
Recorded in May 2011 in the gorgeous Gewandhaus Leipzig, this concert demonstrates a powerful orchestra as well as a perfect mastery in singing. Once more, Riccardo Chailly reaches a peak with the Gewandhausorchester. His love for Mahler, whose symphonies he has conducted many times (notably during the 2010-2011 season, when the world was commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s death), give Chailly an incredible amount of energy, a transcendantal power of communication with the musicians. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 was also one of Claudio Abbado’s most beloved symphonies – and Riccardo Chailly served as Abbado’s assistant at La Scala when he was 20.
In this recording, Chailly is joined by Sarah Connolly in “Urlicht.” The last movement gathers three choirs (the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig and the GewandhausChor) as well as soprano Christiane Oelze and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly.
The long relationship between Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig started in 1986 with a highly acclaimed concert at the Salzburg Festival. Riccardo Chailly currently assumes the position of Gewandhauskapellmeister. He has recorded many albums with the orchestra, notably the complete Brahms symphonies, which was recently awarded the BBC Music Magazine Orchestral Award. (more…)