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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.  2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)

Music

1h 35m

September 27, 2011 (13 years ago)

Overview

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Sarah Connolly

Sarah Connolly

Soloist

Birthday: June 13, 1963

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Christiane Oelze

Christiane Oelze

Soloist

Birthday: -

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Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly

Conductor

Birthday: February 20, 1953

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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig--