DVD Video, Andris Nelsons (conductor)
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Baiba Skride (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — More…
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This upbeat introduction to the new year finds the Latvian maestro in genial form, with a rip-roaring account of Johann Strauss II’s Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka as well as novelties by Carl Michael... — More…
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a terrific memento of a marvellous concert...The performance of the New World...is out of the top drawer, with the same outstanding qualities as their audio recording....Nelsons makes the Symphony... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, DVD of the Month
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
RecommendedPeter Serkin (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello & director), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano), James Taylor (vocals & guitar)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, David Zinman, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons,...
If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2013
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Berg: Violin Concerto & Mendelssohn: Scottish Symphony
Baiba Skride (violin), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Head buried in the score, Nelsons nonetheless holds a firm grip on the relentless motor rhythms powering the event’s premiere, commissioned from Steffen Schleiermacher…Skride gives a requiescal... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Orchestral Choice
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The physicality of Nelsons's conducting...is assuredly part of his attraction...Aside from Nelsons's gymnastics, the players' ease and palpable enjoyment regularly catch the cameras' eyes. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, DVD of the Month
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Weinberg: Trumpet Concerto & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' & B A Zimmermann: Nobody knows de trouble I see
Ekaterina Gubanova (contralto), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons
[Zimmerman] The idiom is bluesy and jazzy, with an electric organ warbling in the background alongside a piano and reduced jazz-band forces. The star trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger is no square... — More…
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The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... — More…
