DVD Video, Netherlands Radio Choir (choir)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Chen Reiss (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Daniele Gatti
The incisiveness of strings in the earth-tremors of the first movement, the luminous beauty of the horns and the trumpet seraphics come across beautifully in the most luminous of concert-halls…Watching... — More…
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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…
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Myrto Papatanasiu (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Burkhard Fritz (tenor) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
Netherlands Radio Choir & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Iván Fischer
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Mahler: Complete Symphonies (1-10), Totenfeier & Das Lied von der Erde
All full HD live recordings taken from the 2009-2011 Mahler celebration at Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Miah Persson (soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Camilla Nylund (soprano), Maria Espada (soprano), Stephanie Blythe (mezzo), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Tommi Hakala (baritone),...
All these performances bear the stamp of the man on the podium...but the set's most positive and absorbing quality is its paradoxical focus on the orchestra, and in this composer above all,... — More…
