Movie Details
Theatrical Release:September 27th, 2011
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Accentus Music
Riccardo Chailly & Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Mahler 2 on the Web:Official Website
Riccardo Chailly & Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Mahler 2 (2011)
Audience Score
1 hr 35 minSep 27th, 2011
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 Leipzig’s International Mahler Festival, to mark the centenary of Mahler’s 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 don’t 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.
