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Ades's Asyla (the plural of "Asylum," used in both its meanings, as a place of refuge and a scene of madness) is available only in the video format, which is sonically quite good and visually striking. It is energetic music, with a lot of percussion, including one piece that looks like a tomato juice can, and one movement that annotator Andrew Porter describes as "a sort of Rite of Spring cum disco." A video interview of Rattle is a fine bonus. --Joe McLellan
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2003 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Angel Records |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Classical, Color, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Classical, Classical Composers, Music Videos - Classical, Orchestral & Symphonic |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 724349032699 |
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Customer Reviews of Mahler Symphony No. 5 & Ades Aslya / Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic
Brilliant Mahler Five; The Jury's Still Out on Ad� More and more I'm coming to feel that the way I want my Mahler is via DVD. There is something about seeing, as well as hearing, the orchestra and the conductor that conduces to a more satisfying experience. I've reviewed - glowingly - several Mahler DVD performances: the Ninth (glorious!), Fifth (celebratory), and the 'Resurrection' (No. 2), all conducted by one of my favorite conductors, Claudio Abbado. Here we have direct competition with the Abbado Fifth by his successor with the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle. Well, as I see it, you can't go wrong with either version. This Fifth is really special. And, by the way, it is available separately on regular CD, too. This DVD comes with a separate DVD-A that contains the audio only of the symphony; I can't compare the sound of the DVD-A with the CD because I've not heard the CD, but the sound on the DVD-A is pretty spectacular, if you should want to go that route. This was Rattle's inaugural 2002 concert with the BPO after assuming Abbado's mantle, and the sense of occasion is palpable. <
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>A few high points: Principal horn Stefan Dohr comes to the front of the orchestra for his gorgeously played solos in the Scherzo. The Berlin Philharmonic play like gods and, mirabile dictu, I see them smiling much of the time! That's got to be at least partly a reaction to Rattle's irresistible enthusiasm. Those Berlin strings are unbeatable (except, some would say, by the Vienna Philharmonic) in, for instance, the pizzicati in the Scherzo and, even more impressive, in the Adagietto, which is certainly a love song in this performance. And it leads right up to a joyful finale. Yes, there is the dark undercurrent present, too, but as Rattle says of Mahler's position in this matter, 'love and counterpoint will remedy anything.' <
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>The curtain raiser in this concert was 'Asyla' by the aging British Wunderkind, Thomas Ad�s. I will say straight off that I'm not a big fan of Mr Ad�s's music. While acknowledging his talent, I haven't found much of his to my own taste. Still, 'Asyla' is a brilliant tour de force of orchestration if nothing else, although as Martin Anderson comments in a review I'd read some months ago, it seems to be running in place throughout its twenty-minute length. <
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>The bottom line: this is a magnificent Mahler Fifth, different from Abbado's in that it has more chiaroscuro, and equally valid. The extras include an interview of Rattle by Nicholas Kenyon. Sound is PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 or Dolby Digital 5.1, and it is quite lifelike. One notices, momentarily, that when the camera is in the orchestra looking towards the conductor the audio perspective reverses so that first violins seem to be on the right, seconds on the left. Odd, even understandable, and not too bothersome. <
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>Scott Morrison
The very best
Excellent performance + the best sound and picture in any DVD of classical performance I have.
Rattle's visuals detract
Interesting performance. Extremes in dynamics will challenge even the best sound systems. The strings become so soft at times that they lose quality, become raspy & suffer intonation problems. However, I find the performance heart-felt and at times moving. But, really, the players of the Berlin Philharmonic are artists, and to have to endure a conductor hovering over them, making demented faces and wild gestures is surely an insult and demeaning experience, and as such is a testiment to their powers of restraint. I would have thrown my mute at him after the 1st movement. Also, Mahler's instructions aside, I find the horn soloist being repositioned at the front problematic. Abbado's placing him alone at the back in the Lucernce performance is more effective, as it doesn't give promenance to accompanying motifs which the soloist sometimes plays. I have viewed the DVD once, but because of Rattle's antics I'll stick to the included sound-only DVD in the future.