Since you are interested in The Pyongyang Concert [recorded in North Korea in 2008] BLU-RAY, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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 |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (Complete opera sung in Czech recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Opéra Bastille / Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) [ EuroArts / Medici Arts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Enchanting staging…The sound is splendid, the video direction simply fabulous. Everyone, Tsallagova above all, responds beautifully to close-ups…make sure your whole family enjoys it with you!" IRR |
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) |
W.A. MOZART
Don Giovanni (recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2008) BLU-RAY Christopher Maltman / Erwin Schrott / Annette Dasch / Wiener Philharmoniker / Bertrand de Billy [ EuroArts / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "The cast is top-drawer, with strong voices. There should be law against performing Mozart without Dorothea Röschmann, who here sings the crazed Elvira with real bite and zeal" (International Record Review) |
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... |
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. |
SHOSTAKOVICH / BEETHOVEN / SCARLATTI / etc
Live From Verbier Festival [recorded 2009 & 2010] BLU-RAY Martha Argerich (piano) David Guerrier (trumpet) Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "(Martha Argerich) sets about the down-to-earth matter of sublime music-making, pulling all her colleagues into her spell." (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Amor, vida de mi vida: Zarzuelas (recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Placido Domingo & Ana Maria Martinez / Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg / Jesus Lopez Cobos [ Medici Arts / EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "A live concert of zarzuela, the genre in which Domingo cut his teeth, with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra delivering stylish playing and soloists assured." (BBC Music) |
IL SISTEMA
El Sistema - Music to change life (a film by Paul Smaczny & Maria Stodtmeier) BLU-RAY Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "This inspiring film, subtitled "music to change life", takes us behind the scenes of the worldwide phenomenon of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela." (Gramophone) |