DVD1 (120 minutes):
Documentary “Peace, Revolution and Germany Unification” (1999 production / Director Oliver Becker)
Documentary “Two Cities, One Maestro” (Produced in 1992 / Directed by Alan Miller)
Documentary “Discovering Masterpieces-Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto” (Produced in 2007 / Directed by Angelica Stiler)
DVD2 (71 minutes):
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major op.90 “Italy”
Musorgsky / Golchakov ed .: Suite “Pictures at an Exhibition”
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Kurt Masur (Director)
Recording: September 15, 1993 Leipzig, (Live)
Director: Elizabeth Birke-Melzer
DVD3 (82 minutes) :
Mendelssohn: Leipzig Gewandhaus Gala Concert
Overture “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Op.21
Violin Concerto in E Minor Op.64
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor “Scottish” Op.56
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Op.61 More Marriage March
Frank-Michael Elben (Violin)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Kurt Masur (Director)
Recording: 1997, Leipzig Gewandhaus
Director: Bob Coles
DVD4 (90 minutes):
Kurt Masur / Life in Music-Anniversary Gala from Leipzig
: “Merry Wives of Windsor” Overture
: Song of Love-From Waltz op.52
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance in E minor op.72-2
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien Op.45
Bernstein: “West Side Story” –
Dukas: Symphony Poem “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
Bize: “Carmen” Prelude
Jopin: Ipanema’s Daughter
Harald Schmidt (Moderator)
MDR Broadcast Choir
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Kurt Masur (Director)
Recording: June 15, 2007 Leipzig , Gewandhaus (Live)
Director: Georg Vubolt
DVD5
(89 minutes + 11 minutes):
Mendelssohn in Verbier
: Piano Sixth in D major Op.110, Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op.25, Symphony No. 3 In B minor Op.56 “Scottish”
Stravinsky: 3 movements from “Petruska”
Yuja Wang (piano)
Kirill Torsov (violin) David Aaron Carpenter (Viola)
Maxim Lisanov (Viola) Sol Gabetta (Cello) Ray Mesh (Contrabas)
Verbier Festival Orchestra Kurt Masur (Conductor)
Date: July 29, 2009 (Op.110), July 30 (Op) .25, Op.56), August 1st (bonus), Verbier Festival (live), Switzerland
Director: Francois-Rene Martin, Philippe Vesia, Pierre-Martin Juban