Dudamel Conducts Mahler

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic

Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca is the featured performer in this New Year's Eve Concert Gala, with conductor Gustavo Dudamel leading the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Orchestra: Simon Bólivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

This could well be the most ambitious recording of any Mahler symphony - ever! A once-in-a-generation classical event and an unforgettable night for the city of Caracas.

Watch an extended trailer on the Mahler 8 DVD below.



This truly unique account of Mahlers most extraordinary symphony is part of Gustavo Dudamels planned Mahler cycle, this time featuring BOTH orchestras with which he is most closely associated - the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela - as well as immense vocal forces including a massed choir of young Venezuelan voices and a lineup of international soloists.

This stupendous, historic collaboration in Caracas cements the friendship and bond between the LA Philharmonic and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, who have both played acclaimed Mahler concerts with Maestro Dudamel in the US and in Venezuela.

The performance was seen in hundreds of theaters in the United States and Canada, as well as those in Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. In Venezuela, it aired on the state television channel, Tves, to mass audiences.

This special DVD and Blu-Ray will be released to coincide with the Opening Concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra season in September 2012.

Extra Material: 17 minutes documentary on the DVD and Blu-Ray which gives a unique insight into this world-beating Mahler recording.

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Orchestra: Simon Bólivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Watch and live the excitement of LA Phil conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela performing Mahler's 8th symphony, "The Symphony of a Thousand."

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Orchestra: Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker

Brought up through Venezuela's celebrated El Sistema, Gustavo Dudamel has risen from humble beginnings to become one of the most outstanding conductors of our day. Music director of orchestras on three different continents and a regular guest at the most prestigious concert halls, he was listed by Time in 2009 as among the world's "100 Most Influential People," while in 2011 Gramophone crowned him "Artist of the Year," citing his "charismatic ability to inspire a lifelong passion for music in young people" and "his passionate energy on the podium."

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Orchestra: Simon Bólivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

High-quality recording of LA Phil conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela performing Beethoven's third symphony, both on of his most personal and most widely recognized works.

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Orchestra: Simon Bólivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela

Gustavo Dudamel's two full-frontal force orchestral pieces elicit high octane playing from his Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Both Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps and Revueltas's La noche de los Mayas are revealed as models of revolutionary music making.

In Le Sacre du Printemps, Stravinsky transformed painter Nicholas Roerich's fleeting vision of a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death as a sacrifice to the god of Spring into a musical simulation of barbaric primality. La noche de los Mayas, originally scored for a 1939 film, is one of Mexico's musical treasures. This concert suite, edited by Jos Ives Limantour, dating to 1961, evokes a mystical lost world.

Dudamel dazzles with Sibelius and more as he conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in this boxset from 2011.