Scene from: Great Composers: Mahler
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Conductor: Sir Georg Solti
Shot on location in Prague, Budapest and Vienna and includes filmed extracts with: the late Sir Georg Solti conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in performances of Symphonies Nos. 1,2,3,5,9 and Das Lied von der Erde with mezzo-soprano Charlotte Hellekant; Thomas Hampson singing the song-cycles Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Kindertotenlieder. Biographical and critical commentators include: Riccardo Chailly, Michael Tilson Thomas, Colin Matthews, Henri Louis de la Grange, Donald Mitchell, Michael Kennedy, Edward Seckerson, Norman Lebrecht, Ken Russell and Mahler's grand-daughter, Marina.
Catalogue: 5101154532