Mahler : Symphony No. 5
DVD Concert - Mahler : Symphony No. 5
Title: Mahler : Symphony No. 5 - DVD Concert - Mahler : Symphony No. 5
Artist: Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Composer: Mahler
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
EuroArts-Lucerne Festival
Region: 0
Sound: 5.1 / DTS / Stereo
Screen Format: 16:9
Mahler : Symphony No. 5 - DVD Concert - Mahler : Symphony No. 5
Claudio Abbado is undeniably the supreme Mahler conductor of our time
Now he conducts the composer's Fifth and most popular Symphony which became world-famous as the soundtrack to Visconti's "Death in Venice"
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra has set new standards in the field of classical music with the participation of great soloists at the orchestra's first desks, e.g. clarinetist Sabine Meyer, oboist Albrecht Mayer, violist Wolfram Christ, cellist Natalia Gutman and the Hagen Quartet
Special Feature: Multi-Angle. The DVD includes the option to switch to the "Conductor Camera" and experience Claudio Abbado from the orchestra's perspective
"Has there ever been a suaver, more transparent Mahler performance or one in which everything stays so beautifully in tune? ... Abbado's music-making is a celebration of the purest joy."
Gramophone Magazine on Abbado's recording of Mahler's 2nd Symphony with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
"The best orchestra in the world."
Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, on the Lucerne Festival Orchestra