Gurrelieder : Jansons / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir, Voigt, Mihoko Fujimura, S.Andersen, Pecoraro, Volle

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Live Recording: 60th anniversary-concert of the Symhonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
22./23.09.2009, Munich Philharmonie

Deborah Voigt (Tove), Mihoko Fujimura (Wood-Dove),
Stig Andersen (Waldemar), Herwig Pecoraro (Jester)
Michael Volle (Peasant/Speaker)

NDR Chor, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Chor-und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons, conductor

Including bonus material (introduction to the work, interviews)
Booklet: German, English including the libretto

Run Time: 125 minutes
2.0 PCM Stereo, 5.0 DTS Surround
NTSC
Region Code 0

Schonberg's mammoth opus concurrently proved his greatest public success - the Gurrelieder, premiered in 1913. No less than 150 orchestra musicians, five vocal soloists as well as three great German radio choruses populated the stage of the Munich Philharmonie in the Gasteig in October of 2009. The performance, marking the Symphonieorchester's 60th anniversary and led by Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons, was grandiose, the audience and press response - appropriately exuberant. To this day, the late romantic sound images, which seem not to fit in with the hackneyed cliche of twelve? tone composer Schonberg (he first began concerning himself with this technique much later), directly stir every listener, and anyone who loves Strauss and Mahler should definitely not miss out on the Gurrelieder.