Dudamel Conducts Mahler

This version of the Eighth Symphony is one of Sir Georg Solti's greatest triumphs on record. The conductor's high-voltage interpretive style was not always ideally suited to Mahler's music -- for example, both of his recordings of the Ninth Symphony seem curiously fidgety -- but there's no question that this is one of the best recordings ever made of Mahler's mighty Eighth. Solti sculpts this sprawling score into a coherent, dramatic shape. Since its first release on LP in 1971, audiophiles have treasured this recording for its sonic potency -- it still has tremendous impact.

Legendary conductor Pierre Boulez brings his acclaimed Mahler symphonies cycle to a spectacular conclusion with this new recording of the monumental Symphony No. 8. Boulez teams up with Barenboim's Staatskapelle Berlin, the Berlin State Opera and Radio Choruses, as well as a strong cast of soloists including Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha and Twyla Robinson to deliver his long- awaited reading of what is arguably one of Mahler's biggest and most impressive scores, also known as "Symphony of a Thousand" due to the large number of musicians needed to perform the piece.

This release crowns a more-than-decade-long project involving all the symphonies and major orchestral works of Gustav Mahler--a project that is both of highest personal value to Maestro Boulez and an important document of Mahler interpretation.

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, 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.