DVD — Mahler: Symphony No.8 — Riccardo Chailly / LFO

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.8 in E♭ major (“Symphony of a Thousand”) — Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Lucerne Festival 2016, Opening Concert in the KKL); with Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tölzer Knabenchor. Blu-ray disk, received for reviewing.

Schumann: Cello Concerto (Diary 2016-05-03)

Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, op.129, in the new recording with Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, compared to legacy recordings with Gregor Piatigorsky & Sir John Babirolli / London Philharmonic Orchestra (1934) and Mstislav Rostropovich & Gennadi Rozhdestvensky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (1961)

20th Century Violin Concertos (Diary 2014-05-28)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto Nr.2 in G minor, op.63 — Kopatchinskaja; Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D — Kopatchinskaja; Bartók: Violin Concerto No.1, Sz.36 / BB 48a & Violin Concerto No.2, Sz.112 / BB 117 — Faust vs. Kopatchinskaja; Eötvös: Violin Concerto “Seven” — Kopatchinskaja; Ligeti: Violin Concerto — Kopatchinskaja