Abbado conducts Mahler & Schönberg
Juliane Banse
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Claudio Abbado
“Together with conductor Claudio Abbado, the cream of young European musicians who make up this outstanding orchestra infused the symphony with a luminosity that glowed with an inner brilliance.” La Stampa
What makes Abbado’s Mahler performances so remarkable is that their impact is never achieved at the expense of the multiple sensitivities, subtleties and extreme sophistication. Together with one of the world’s leading youth orchestras – the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester – Abbado performs Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande, the latter being preceded by an introduction that offers fascinating insights into this unparalleled composition.
Region code
0
Picture format NTSC 16:9
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
dts 5.1
Release July 1, 2009
Total running time 113 mins
Subtitles English, French, German
Booklet notes English, French, German
No. of discs 1
Recording 2006
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.4, in G Major
Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande op.5