Mahler: Symphony No. 5 & Selected Songs from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn': Lucerne Festival In Summer 2015

[The Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s] magnificent playing here is suffused with the memory of their creator, Claudio Abbado, and re-energised with the new-found dynamism of the visionary Latvian…Nelsons... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Release Date: 20th May 2016
Catalogue No: ACC20354
Label: Accentus Music

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Mahler: Rheinlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Mahler: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Mahler: Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Mahler: Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Mahler: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Mahler: Revelge (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Mahler: Der Tambourg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

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Andris Nelsons conducted the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for the third time in August 2015, the orchestra’s second summer without founder and guiding spirit Claudio Abbado. The first half of his concert was already a highlight: the baritone Matthias Goerne seemed completely at home in a selection of songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. His warm, dark voice allows him to capture the somber and tragic atmosphere of this music like no one else. Its shaded timbre is most perfectly suited to the work’s melancholy and nocturnal moods, where one can directly experience how an artist of this caliber can bring music to the edge of the abyss. The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, renowned for its unique Mahler sound, had last played Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in the summer of 2004 with Abbado – a flowing, transparent, and ethereal interpretation. Nelsons finds a completely different approach to the work. His Mahler is fiery, expansive, and powerful. In spite of the introductory funeral march, his reading is more positive than tragic, radiating an intense vitality. It is breathtaking to observe the orchestra’s response to Nelsons’s energetic, physical, and emotional conducting style. The relationship between orchestra and conductor is one of giving and taking, nothing else.

Picture Format DVD: NTSC 16:9

Sound Formats DVD: PCM Stereo

Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1

Region Code: 0 (worldwide)

Running Time: 123:12 min

Disc Format: DVD‐9

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

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September 2016

[The Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s] magnificent playing here is suffused with the memory of their creator, Claudio Abbado, and re-energised with the new-found dynamism of the visionary Latvian…Nelsons and his orchestra are predictably joyous and the coming-together of the earlier chorale and delirious helter-skeltering strings is ridiculously exciting

Classical Music October 2016

A high- octane, viscerally intense performance of the fifth symphony beautifully filmed and recorded here for Accentus

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