Gustav Mahler - Symphonie Nr. 2/Gwandhaus Or... - Naxos Deutschland

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and their Music Director Riccardo Chailly have already acquired legendary statusglorius reviews and many awards for their recordings testifying to their continuing success. At Leipzig's International Mahler Festival, to mark the centenenary of Mahler's death, they performed his monumental Second Symphony in the Gewandhaus - together with two marvellous soloists and choral forces quite beyond compare. About the final movement the composer said: "The increasing tension, working up to the final climax, is so tremendous that I don't know myself, not that it is over, how I ever came to write it."

"Aufnahme"
Recorded live at Geandhaus zu Leipzig 17/18 May 2011

"Musik"
Christiane Oelze, soprano
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano

MDR Rundfunkchor
Berliner Rundfunkchor
GewandhausChor
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor