Andris Nelsons conducts Brahms: Lucerne Festival in Summer 2014 Opening Concert

As this finely directed, unfussily shot DVD shows, long and standing ovations confirmed Nelsons's triumph. We see his sentient hands and face incarnate and gleefully make visible the entire nerve... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: ACC20325
Label: Accentus Music

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Andris Nelsons

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Sara Mingardo (alto)
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra
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In 2014, all signs pointed to a new beginning at the Lucerne Festival. For the first time, the festival would take place without the incomparable Claudio Abbado, with the young Latvian Andris Nelsons leading the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Nelsons had already won the trust and respect of both listeners and performers in a moving memorial concert for Abbado in Lucerne. He is known internationally as one of the most gifted conductors of his generation.

Now he was poised to lead the prestigious festival into a new era – he brilliantly mastered this “greatest challenge” (as he himself called it) of his career. The audience and the musicians responded with heart‐felt gratitude. “He is aware of every single player and carries us on an unbelievable wave of enthusiasm”, according to concertmaster Sebastian Breuninger. Solo violist Wolfram Christ adds, “Nelsons accepts what is inherent in our orchestra and what comes from Abbado; he builds on it and makes it into something new.”

Picture Format DVD: NTSC 16:9

Sound Formats DVD: PCM Stereo

Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1

Region Code: 0 (worldwide)

Running Time: 109:00 min

Disc Format: DVD‐9

Subtitles: German (Original), French, English, Japanese, Korean

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September 2015

As this finely directed, unfussily shot DVD shows, long and standing ovations confirmed Nelsons's triumph. We see his sentient hands and face incarnate and gleefully make visible the entire nerve system of the music…Nelsons ventilates Brahms's orchestration, exploting the refined ensemble nurtured over a decade by Abbado.

10th May 2015

What a spine-tingling DVD this is...Nelsons is his own man; this was no stand-in performance, and the level of concentrated artistry here is phenomenal...the entire performance testifies to his utter absorption in the music and to his ability to transmit his feel for style and sonority both to the orchestra and to the audience.

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