Riccardo Chailly & Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Mahler 2 [Blu-ray]
 

Product Details
 
Actors: Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, MDR Rundfunkchor, Berliner Rundfunkchor, GewandhausChor
 Directors: Henning Kasten
 Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Classical, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
 Language: English
 Subtitles: German, English, French
 Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
 Number of discs: 1
 Rated: NR (Not Rated)
 Studio: Accentus
 DVD Release Date: September 27, 2011
 Run Time: 96 minutes
 

Editorial Reviews
 

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and their Music Director Riccardo Chailly have already acquired legendary status glorious reviews and many awards for their recordings testifying to their continuing success. At Leipzigs International Mahler Festival, to mark the centenary of Mahlers death, they performed his monumental Second Symphony in the Gewandhaus together with two marvellous soloists and choral forces quite beyond compare. About the final movement the composer said: The increasing tension, working up to the final climax, is so tremendous that I dont know myself, now that it is over, how I ever came to write it. The painting ""Morgenrot"" was chosen by internationally acclaimed artist Neo Rauch to feature on the cover of this release on DVD and Blu-ray.