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• Felix Mendelssohn - Gala Concert | DVD | (16/08/2000) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (-29.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A concert dedicated to the work of Felix Mendelssohn recorded live at the Gewandhaus Leipzig. Includes 'Violin Concerto In E Minor' 'Wedding March From A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Symphony No 3'.

• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 | Blu Ray | (19/05/2014) from £25.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (16.47%)   |  RRP £29.99

  As Riccardo Chailly points out, 'The Fifth begins with a dark, gloomy, and tragic tone, but then is enlivened in the Scherzo and Adagietto, and eventually ends with a more positive character in the Finale - perhaps for the last time in Mahler's life. The Adagietto is a revelation, a spiritual oasis. It is not an expression of pain, but rather Mahler's declaration of love to Alma - a song without words.' With the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chailly gives the piece an unsu.

• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £27.29   |  Saving you £-7.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Choral | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A performance of Beethoven's renowned symphony under the baton of Kurt Masur.

• Concert from The Church Of St Nicolai, Leipzig | DVD | (20/06/2000) from £6.82   |  Saving you £14.43 (259.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring Ludwig van Beethoven Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

• Bach: Mass In B Minor | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded in 2000 at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig where the composer worked as Cantor for 25 years, this performance of Bach's Mass in B minor is a commemorative concert marking the 250th anniversary of his birthday. The conductor here, Georg Christoph Biller, was himself Cantor in 2000, while most members of the ensemble have strong links with the Bach tradition. Hence, this is a faithfully authentic, if orthodox rendering of the work. The Mass itself, however--composed in 1748-9, a year or so before he died--is somewhat unorthodox. To begin with it's a Latin mass, itself an odd choice for a protestant Cantor, and even so does not follow the conventions of a Catholic mass, split as it is into four rather than five parts. Using the full range of his compositional skills, it seems that what the ailing Bach intended here was church music that transcended the bounds of creed, a glorious musical valediction that soars aloft into the cathedral rafters and beyond. Certainly, this is the feeling evoked in the performances of English soprano Ruth Holton, among others. The power of the performances is poignantly contrasted with visual extracts of Bach's original score, his enfeebled handwriting indicative of his failing health. Yet the Mass in B minor has succeeded in achieving immortality and universality--a fine last testament from a composer who seems to have more resonance with contemporary audiences than most of his classical descendants. On the DVD: The aspect ratio is 16:9. There are various subtitles but no extra features. --David Stubbs

• Gewandhausorchester Leipzig | DVD | (31/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded during Kurt Masur's tenure as Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus this recording features Mendelssohn's Symphony No.4 in A major which charts his journey through Florence Rome and Naples and Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' in which the composer describes 10 paintings by Hartmann framing each by the 'Promenade'.