Since you are interested in Live From Verbier Festival [recorded 2009 & 2010] BLU-RAY, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Gala Concert from St.Petersburg BLU-RAY Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Mischa Maisky (cello), Eliso Virsaladze (piano) & Viktor Tretjakov (violin) [ EuroArts Medici Arts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] This festive gala concert was held to mark the city's 300th anniversary, bringing together some of the greatest Russian artists. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms The Violin Sonatas (Blu-ray) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) & Lambert Orkis (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Jul/2010 ] "Never before have Mutter and Orkis seemed so joined at the hip, giving and taking, conducting dialogue, chasing each others' thoughts . . . She plays with a new degree of maturity and depth, especially visible in the slow movements." (The Times) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic' BLU-RAY Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "Has there ever been a suaver, more transparent Mahler performance or one in which everything stays so beautifully in tune? ... Abbado's music-making is a celebration of the purest joy." The Gramophone Magazine |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / EDWARD ELGAR
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 / Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 [Europa Konzert 2010 from Oxford] BLU-RAY Alisa Weilerstein (cello) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Daniel Barenboim [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Daniel Barenboim´s programme played to the orchestra's strengths, and the sound was sumptuous." (Guardian) |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 3 (recorded at the Lucerne Festival, 2007) BLU-RAY Anna Larsson (alto) / Arnold Schoenberg Choir / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2010 ] G : - "This is easily the greatest, most concentrated, most moving and beautifully played performance of this massive work I've yet encountered" (Keith). This DVD was a Staff Pick DVD for 2010. |
BORODIN / MUSSORGSKY
Simon Rattle conducts Mussorgsky & Borodin (Live-recording from the Philharmonie Berlin Dec 31, 2007) BLU-RAY Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 27/Oct/2010 ] "Technically speaking this is an outstanding issue…picture quality and colour balance are exceptional…the sound-picture [is] clear and truthfully balanced." (International Record Review) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Fantasia in A major on Polish Airs / Krakowiak Concert Rondo in F AUDIO-ONLY Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2011 ] Chopin's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 is dominated by the brilliant piano part that the performer-composer wrote to showcase his extraordinary talent. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' / Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise AUDIO ONLY Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2011 ] Using the new Polish National Chopin Edition, acclaimed pianist Eldar Nebolsin and Poland's national orchestra conducted by the renowned Polish conductor Antoni Wit, here present fresh interpretations of Chopin's great works for piano and orchestra. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' BLU-RAY Eteri Gvazava / Anna Larsson / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "It's different having best friends together. Everyone is there to enjoy making music, to take pleasure, to play with enthusiasm, with passion. They are prepared to do any crazy thing I ask them for the sake of the music. To fly, to walk through... |
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (with Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World') [recorded in 2002] BLU-RAY Gil Shaham (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado (cond) [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "A superb concert containing a top recommendation for the Dvorák New World. As great a performance as has ever been given." (MusicWeb June 2011) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great' - A Ballet By Uwe Scholz BLU-RAY Kiyoko Kimura, Christoph Böhm, Oksana Kulchytska (dancers) / Leipzig Ballet, Choir of the Leipzig Opera & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Balázs Kocsár [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The full length Choreography takes its name from Mozart's famous unfinished Mass in C minor and adds other works by the same composer, such as the Adagio and Fugue in C minor and the motet Ave verum corpus as well as passages of Gregorian chant, and... |
DAVID LANG
Amelia (A film by Adouard Lock) BLU-RAY La La La Human Steps / Soloists / Njo Kong Kie (piano and musical direction) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "Amelia is nothing but dance, brilliantly shot, relentlessly in your face, astonishingly fast. The lesson of Amelia... is to dance this hard, this fast, this gloriously while you still can" Los Angeles Times |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 7 in E minor (recorded live in 2005) BLU-RAY Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Jul/2011 ] "Has there ever been a suaver, more transparent Mahler performance or one in which everything stays so beautifully in tune? ... Abbado's music-making is a celebration of the purest joy." The Gramophone Magazine |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Ruckert-Lieder [recorded in August 2009] BLU-RAY Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Euroarts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2010 ] Abbado combines the orchestral work (which features a solo soprano in the finale) with Mahler's "Rückert-Lieder". Soloist in both works is the Czech soprano Magdalena Kozena. |
SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 / Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 (recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Martha Argerich (piano) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] Martha Argerich has long been hailed as one of the greatest and most uniquely imaginative pianists. |
WAGNER / GERSHWIN / DVORAK
The Pyongyang Concert [recorded in North Korea in 2008] BLU-RAY New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel [ EuroArts Medici Arts BLU_RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "For at least 90 minutes in a theatre in Pyongyang it was possible … to believe that 55 years of cold-war hostility were coming to an end." James Miles, The Economist |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (with Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3) [recorded in 2009] BLU-RAY Yuja Wang (piano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Bluray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Claudio Abbado has realised a dream with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The orchestra consists of an exclusive ensemble of handpicked musicians like Kolja Blacher and Sebastian Breuninger, Natalia Gutman, Clemens Hagen and Jens Peter Maintz. |