Mahler 2 – Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
At Leipzig’s International Mahler Festival, to mark the centenary of Mahler’s death, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and its Music Director Riccardo Chailly performed his monumental Second Symphony in the Gewandhaus – together with two marvellous soloists and choral forces quite beyond compare.
The performance of the 2nd Symphony fulfils Mahler’s own description of his final movement: ‘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.’
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
MDR Rundfunkchor
Berliner Rundfunkchor
GewandhausChor
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Christiane Oelze Soprano
Sarah Connolly Mezzo-Soprano
| Genre: | Concert |
| Year of production: | 2011 |
| Duration: | 95:00 |
| Recording Date: | 17/18 May 2011 |
| Status: | completed |
| Composers: | Gustav Mahler |
| Works: | Symphony No. 2 (Gustav Mahler) |
| Orchestras: | Gewandhausorchester Leipzig |
| Choirs: | MDR Rundfunkchor, GewandhausChor, Rundfunkchor Berlin |
| Soloists: | Christiane Oelze (Soprano), Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-Soprano) |
| Conductors: | Riccardo Chailly |
| Picture Formats: | FULL HD |
| Sound Formats: | DTS 5.1 |
| Production company: | ACCENTUS Music |
| Co-Production Company: | MDR |
| Associated Production Company: | Arte |
| Distribution TV: | C Major Entertainment |
| Director: | Henning Kasten |
