Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 ~ Leonard Bernstein, Sheila Armstrong, Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra
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Actor: Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Leonard Bernstein, Vienna Opera Philharmonica, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera ChoirBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 246 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 ~ Leonard Bernstein, Sheila Armstrong, Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra
Movie Review: The Perfect Bernstein-Mahler DVD to Get Started
Summary: 5 Stars
After all these years when people today strived to watch Leonard Bernstein conduct the works of perhaps his favorite composer in the living room (not to mention the brief marketing on videos we barely knew, and those awfully large and expensive things known as Laser Disks!), the wait is over.
Deuschte Grammophon/United is kind enough to offer us the complete Mahler Cycle Bernstein did during the 70's (complete separate from the audio recordings he did during the 60's and the 80's) on DVD, and we praise its effort.
Buying a complete 4 album set at once is a lofty task for the financially restrained... including myself... so why might as well buy one album at a time (either option you will be buying for $160). Of the 4 albums, this is the perfect Mahler DVD to get started - featuring the first three symphonies, each already with individual achievement and fame.
Symphony No. 1, titled "Titan", is one of the shortest, and probably the most accesible, of all the symphonies Mahler wrote. Describing Nature, the work features its awakening, a lively dance, a parodic funeral march of a fallen hunter, and a stormy finale that ends triumphantly. Bernstein and the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra amazes us with his charming yet powerful interpretation.
Symphony No. 2, titled "Resurrection" begins in tragedy and struggle, and ends in one of the greatest, and most touching, anthems in Classical Music history since Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". While not as impacting as what Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic did in the 80's for DG, watching him leading the London Symphony Orchestra at the Ely Cathedral will make you quiver, pray, and at the end, burst in tears. The chorus is incredibly powerful by the finale; at one point as close as bursting the microphones picking up the sound!
Symphony No. 3 is Mahler's longest symphony, at 100 minutes. Like Symphony No. 2, the work glorifies the "Truth", and evokes emotions beyond the physical level. Christa Ludwig and the choirs sing superbly, and Bernstein with the VHO shines in this work.
On all the works, while the viewing quality is obviously dated, the sound qualitly less than perfect/modern/advanced, one should not be deterred.
An excellent DVD for both Bernstein and Mahler fans! Buy it without hesitation. If you have to buy only one between the 4 albums, like I said before, this is the one to get started.
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