VLADIMIR JUROWSKI

Live from the Royal Festival Hall

 

Wagner: Parsifal – Prelude

Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 6

Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1880 original version)

 

Marisol Montalvo, Hedwig Fassbender, Michael Hendrick, Anthony Michaels-Moore

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir / Vladimir Jurowski

 

Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, 19 September 2007

 

 “It’s chemistry – you cannot force it or fake it”, says Vladimir Jurowski of his critically acclaimed relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra – “you just accept it!” Indeed, the strength of that bond between orchestra and conductor was sealed by his appointment as the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s twelfth Principal Conductor from 2007

 

Bonus: A 50 minutes interview with Vladimir Jurowski + Shots from the conductor camera allow you to see the concert as if you were part of the Orchestra. (104 mins)

 

“Pulling off such a programme demands absolute conviction in the moment of performance, and this concert had it in spades. If this is a sign of things to come, the Jurowski/LPO partnership will set a standard by which all other London orchestras are judged.” The Financial Times

 

“It was almost like an act of defiance that Vladimir Jurowski began his first concert as chief conductor of the London Philharmonic with the Prelude to Wagner's Parsifal. There could be nothing more challenging with which to launch the orchestra's 75th London season and nothing more pertinent to the Berg and Mahler that followed, Wagner's last opera pointing the way to what could so easily have been Mahler's first - Das Klagende Lied - with Berg the portent of a momentous, if turbulent, future. And with programming like this, that wasn't just a possibility but a promise.... I have never heard a more thrilling performance.” The Independent

 

Picture Format: NTSC · 16:9 anamorphic

Sound Formats: PCM Stereo · Dolby Digital 5.1

Region Code: 0

Subtitles: English, German

Booklet Notes: English, German, French

Running Time: 258 mins · 154 mins (Disc I) / 104 mins (Disc II)

 

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