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Gunter Wand Edition. Part I: Bruckner, Haydn, Schubert. DVD. NDR Sinfonieorchester/Gunter Wand. Directed by Hugo Kach. [United States]: TDK, 2005. DVUS-COWAND/1. $26.99.
Gustav Mahler. Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection." DVD. Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado. Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21 August 2003. With Eteri Gvazava, Anna Larsson, Orfeon Donostiarra. [Germany]: EuroArts, 2003. 2053268. $26.99.
In spite of the proliferation of symphonic music on DVD in the past decade, performances of Anton Bruckner's and Gustav Mahler's symphonies were still very difficult to find on any audiovisual medium--possibly a testament to the awe-inspiring qualities of the composers' symphonic outputs, even among seasoned conductors. Luckily, the DVD releases reviewed here make for an overwhelming reversal, especially since Bruckner and Mahler find paradigmatic interpretations by Gunter Wand and Claudio Abbado, respectively. The latter's performance of Mahler's Second Symphony (a work for which no video performance existed until a year ago) comes as a happy addition to the unexpected, almost simultaneous release of Mahler's complete symphonies under Leonard Bernstein (Deutsche Grammophon and Unitel, 2005). Just as I was about to finish these reviews, a performance of Mahler's Second I attended at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Jarvi, reminded me once again of the extraordinarily engaging power of late-romantic symphonic music on the audience. The late Jonathan D. Kramer insightfully observed on the program that this music is...
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