artist : London Symphony Orchestra with Valery Gergiev
title : Mahler: Symphony No 5
label : LSO Live
cat# : LSO0664
genre : Classical
street date : 2011-02-08
tracks : 5
bitrate : 215 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
size : 109.63mb
source : CD
type : Retail
url : http://lso.co.uk
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MahlerÆs Fifth Symphony marked a new direction in his compositions and a
step away from the choral elements of the previous three symphonies. The
work was completed during one of the happiest periods of MahlerÆs life,
and the symphony showcases virtuosic orchestral playing, an exquisite love
song without words for his wife Alma, and a jubilant finale.
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Valery Gergiev is internationally recognized as one of the most
outstanding musical figures of his generation. His inspired leadership as
Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg,
Russia, where he oversees the Kirov Orchestra, Ballet and Opera, has
brought universal acclaim to this legendary institution. Together with the
Kirov Opera and Orchestra, Maestro Gergiev has toured extensively in 45
countries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the
Middle East.
Principal Conductor Designate of the London Symphony beginning January
2007, he is also the Principal Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic,
Principal Guest Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, and Founder and
Artistic Director of ôStars of the White Nightsö Festival in St.
Petersburg, the Moscow Easter Festival, the Gergiev Rotterdam Festival;
the Mikkeli International Festival in Finland, and is inaugurating the
Kievskaya Russe Festiva in the Ukraine. Maestro Gergiev guest conducts a
select number of orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony and the Vienna
Philharmonic.
Born in Moscow to Ossetian parents, Maestro Gergiev studied conducting
with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory. At age 24, he was the
winner of the Herbert von Karajan Conductors Competition in Berlin. He
made his Kirov Opera debut in 1978 with War and Peace, was appointed
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Kirov Opera in 1988, and
named Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in 1996. In
2003 he celebrated his 50th birthday, his 25th anniversary with the
Mariinsky Theatre and oversaw a considerable portion of the 300th
anniversary of St. Petersburg festivities by producing an unprecedented
three-month ôStars of the White Nightsö Festival. In the same year he
conducted both Season Opening Galas of the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie
Hall Season, the latter with the Kirov Orchestra.
That fall The Wall Street Journal observed, ôThe Mariinsky TheatreÆs
artistic agenda under Mr. GergievÆs leadership has burgeoned into a
diplomatic and ultimately a broadly humanistic one, on a global scale not
even the few classical musicians of comparable vision approach.ö
In the 2004-2005 season, Valery Gergiev initiated a worldwide series of
charity concerts entitled Beslan: Music for Life. Under the MaestroÆs
direction, concerts were held in New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Rome and
Moscow. Further highlights included a seventeen-city Kirov Orchestra tour
of North America with a three-concert residency at Carnegie Hall. In
November of 2005, Valery Gergiev and the legendary French composer and
conductor Pierre Boulez conducted the Kirov Orchestra on the stage of
Palais Garnier, OpΘra National de Paris for a Mariinsky Theatre Gala.
Masestro Gergiev conducted The Kirov (Mariinsky) Opera Company in
ShostakovichÆs The Nose at OpΘra Bastille, and conducted Richard Wagner┤s
Tristan und Isolde at the OpΘra National de Paris.
In March of 2006, Maestro Gergiev begins a seven concert series at Avery
Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center New York of the complete symphonies (15) of
Dmitri Shostakovich to celebrate the composerÆs centenary. This festival
includes both the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Kirov Orchestra of the
Mariinsky Theatre as well as tour appearances across the United States.
This Shostakovich Celebration will continue with concerts in London with
the London Symphony, the Kirov Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and
the Vienna Philharmonic. In the ôStars of the White Nightsö Festival this
summer, he will share the fifteen Shostakovich symphonies and the Kirov
Orchestra podium with conductors Christoph Eschenbach, Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Paavo JΣrvi, Maris Jansons, Maxim Shostakovich and Riccardo Muti. At the
same festival, the Kirov Ballet and Opera will present ShostakovichÆs The
Young Lady and the Hooligan, The Overcoat, The Golden Age, The Nose, and
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
The Kirov OperaÆs appearances in North America will include its annual
appearance at the Kennedy Center and presentations of the Mariinsky
TheatreÆs production of Richard WagnerÆs Ring in the Orange County
Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California in 2006 and in the
Metropolitan Opera House in July of 2007.
Maestro Gergiev is the recipient of many international awards, including
the Dmitri Shostakovich Award; the Golden Mask Award, the most prestigious
theater prize in Russia; the PeopleÆs Artist of Russia, the countryÆs
highest cultural award; the World Economic ForumÆs Crystal Award; and the
EastWest InstituteÆs 25th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award in
recognition of his leadership and passionate service to humanity. Others
presented with the EastWest Award were Tony Blair, Prime Minister of
England and Sanford Weill, Chairman for Citigroup. He has been awarded the
2006 Polar Music Prize of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music, the art
worldÆs equivalent of the Nobel Prize; the 2006 æDistinctive ContributionÆ
Award of the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation in
Washington DC; and in July 2006 will be presented with the Herbert von
Karajan Prize for outstanding living musicians.
He has recorded exclusively for Universal on the Philips Decca and
Deutsche Grammophon labels since 1989. His vast discography includes
numerous Russian operas performed by the Kirov Opera, a cycle of
Shostakovich ôWar Symphoniesö (Nos.4-9) with the Kirov and Rotterdam
Orchestras, and Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Mussorgsky Symphonies with the
Vienna Philharmonic.
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The London Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded as one of the worldÆs
leading orchestras. Since its formation in 1904, it has always attracted
excellent players from all over the world, many of whom have flourishing
solo, chamber music and teaching careers alongside their orchestral work.
The LSOÆs roster of soloists and conductors is second to none, including
LSO President Sir Colin Davis, Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev, AndrΘ
Previn as Conductor Laureate, and Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas
as Principal Guest Conductors. Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez and Sir
Simon Rattle are also regular guests.
The LSO is proud to be Resident Orchestra at the Barbican in the City of
London, presenting over 70 concerts a year to its London audiences, and a
further 70 concerts abroad on tour, and has thrived on the stability its
permanent home has offered since 1982. In addition, the Orchestra has a
successful annual residency at Lincoln Centre, New York, and is the
international resident orchestra of La Salle Pleyel in Paris, also
appearing regularly in Japan and the Far East, as well as in all the major
European cities. In 2010 it became the resident orchestra at the
Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Outside the concert hall, the OrchestraÆs many other activities include an
energetic and ground-breaking education and community programme, a record
company, a music education centre and pioneering work in the field of
digital music.
LSO St LukeÆs, the UBS and LSO Music Education Centre, is the home of LSO
Discovery, providing a unique mix of public and private events for people
of every age and background. Through the technological facilities at LSO
St LukeÆs, the OrchestraÆs education initiatives are offered regionally,
nationally and internationally. In addition, LSO St LukeÆs works with key
artistic partners to present a varied programme of evening and daytime
events, including BBC Radio and TV, Barbican and the Guildhall School.
The LSO is set apart from other international orchestras by the depth of
its commitment to music education, reaching over 60,000 people each year.
The award-winning programme, LSO Discovery, which celebrated its 20th
anniversary in 2010, enables the LSO to offer people of all ages an
opportunity to get involved in music-making and to enter the extraordinary
soundworld of the Orchestra. As well as ongoing programmes that engage
participants locally, nationally and internationally, through family
concerts, Discovery Days and several thriving community groups, recent
innovations include LSO On Track, a long-term investment in young
musicians in East London, and Centre for Orchestra, a unique collaboration
with the Guildhall School and the Barbican Centre focusing on orchestral
training, research and professional development of orchestral musicians.
LSO Live is currently the most successful label of its kind in the world
using the very latest recording technology to make the LSO's finest
performances available to global audiences. To date, LSO Live has released
over 70 recordings with artists including Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev,
Bernard Haitink and Mstislav Rostropovich. The label's recordings have
been widely acclaimed, attracting numerous Grammy, Gramophone and
Classical Brit awards. As well as producing CDs and high-definition Super
Audio CDs, LSO Live was one of the first classical labels to embrace
downloads and use the internet to encourage new audiences to listen to
classical music.
In 2008 the LSO launched the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the worldÆs
first-ever online orchestra, which is repeated in 2011.
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01 Trauermarsch 13:19
02 Stⁿrmisch Bewegt, Mit Gr÷sster Vehemenz 14:43
03 Scherzo 17:27
04 Adagietto 10:34
05 Rondo - Finale 14:41
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