Blu-Ray Video, Accentus Music (label)
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The keynote here is momentum, never forced except when it needs to feel that way...Right from the way Chailly flecks the short note of the cellos' opening arrhythmia, there's a superhuman level... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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The Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Video Performance
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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Award Winner
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This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - DVD Performance
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2
Mao Fujita (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Performances & Documentaries
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Chailly takes us on a journey from darkness to light...He's a pleasure to watch, being neither over-demonstrative nor affectedly matter-of-fact. He looks like what he's conducting and one sense... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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There is nothing inappropriate or anticlimactic about this performance…You can see the right emotions featured in Chailly’s face. His eyes are shut, Karajan-like, at the creation of the world,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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The performance is grand without being portentous, impassioned but never febrile, and is distinguished by a poised musicianship in the finest classical tradition. The DVD filming, like the playing,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Erika Sunnegårdh (soprano), Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Christiane Oelze (soprano), Lioba Braun (alto), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Stephen Gould (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone) & Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
How good to see Riccardo Chailly so radiant at the end of this great event. It's an exhilaration he earns through sheer work as well as injecting the adrenalin at most of the right moments...Chailly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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