Ricarda Merbeth (soprano)
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano)
Andreas Schager (tenor)
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Samuel Youn (bass-baritone)
Denis Matsuev (piano)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Latvian Radio Choir
Orfeon Donostiarra
Tolzer Knabenchor
Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Conductor

Riccardo Chailly

Works

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts)
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30
Symphony no.3 in A minor, op.44

Ravel, Maurice

Bolero
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.1 'Fragments symphoniques'
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite no.2
La Valse
Valses nobles et sentimentales

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Manfred Symphony, op.58

Artists

Conductor

Riccardo Chailly

About

This box set documents Riccardo Chailly's first years as principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. In summer 2016, he steps into the office as Claudio Abbado's successor with Mahler's Eighth Symphony. In a colourful, fresh and stirring performance of the overture and incidental music to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony, Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra bring the musical imagery of both works to life. In summer 2018, the performers transport us to Ravel's musical universes full of colours, scents and flavours: from the pulsating three-four time of the waltzes to the ancient love story of Daphnis and Chloé and the relentless rhythm of the Boléro. A recording from summer 2019 of Rachmaninov's Third Symphony and Third Piano Concerto with Denis Matsuev marks the various stages in the composer's life and demonstrates once again the close bond between the orchestra and their new principal conductor.

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Region code: 0
Running time: 390:13
Disc format: DVD 9
FSK: 0