Filmed on tour at Berlin's Philharmonie, this account of the valedictory Ninth Symphony is an intense interpretation, expressing Bernstein's conviction that modern man had at last caught up with the message encoded in Mahler's last completed work. Having made his famous 1966 studio recording of "Das Lied von der Erde" in Vienna, Bernstein re-recorded this in Israel with the same searing subjectivity. René Kollo draws on the voice of a great Wagner tenor, while Christa Ludwig, the greatest exponent of the contralto songs at the time, is unbearably poignant in the final movement's fusion of elation and sadness.
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Cast
Vienna Philharmonic
Cast
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November 22, 2005
2h 56m
10.0
Humphrey Burton
N/A
1
Deutsche Grammophon
DE
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