Blu-Ray Video, Brahms (composer)
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Andris Nelsons conducts Brahms
Lucerne Festival in Summer 2014 Opening Concert
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Andris Nelsons
What a spine-tingling DVD this is...Nelsons is his own man; this was no stand-in performance, and the level of concentrated artistry here is phenomenal...the entire performance testifies to... — More…
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Among the most touching moments of the event is a six-hands Romance by Rachmaninov…in which Kissin and Trifonov are joined on the lowest part by the composer Rodion Shchedrin, now 85 but still... — More…
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Europakonzert 2002 from Palermo
Recorded live at the Teatro Massimo, Palermo, 1 May 2002
Gil Shaham (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
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Herbert Blomstedt - Wiener Philharmoniker At Salzburg Festival
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert Blomstedt
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The Mumbai Concerts
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... — More…
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Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms & Janacek
Live Recording from The KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne, 2012
Tatiana Monogarova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Ludovit Ludha (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The Brahms Symphony in Jansons's hands is certainly an idyll, darker passages come and go without disturbing the orchestra's mellifluous warmth or Jansons's exquisite phrasings...Could more... — More…
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Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven
Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
A theme of mortality lends the concert a chilling frisson, but Abbado’s strength of ideas and his ability to communicate them with such focus are the overriding qualities as you watch him in... — More…
