MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 6 NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER · RICCARDO CHAILLY GEWANDHAUSORCHESTER LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS LEIPZIG FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly - a “long-time respected Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Mahlerian” (Financial Times) - and “his” Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig prove once again their exceptional grasp of the Mahler Symphonies. In this concert at the Gewandhaus Leipzig Mahler’s JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH “Tragic Symphony” is combined with a piece of music that has Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 - Sarabande its origin in that very place: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto that Mendelssohn composed for his friend Ferdinand David, at that GUSTAV MAHLER time concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and that was Symphony No. 6 in A minor given his first performance at the Gewandhaus in 1845. In this concert, it is performed by young Danish star violinist Nikolaj Conductor Riccardo Chailly Znaider. Orchestra Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Violin Nikolaj Znaider “The Mahler was magnificent” (The Telegraph) Video Director Ute Feudel “This was a supreme interpretation, Nikolaj Znaider was the sensational soloist” (The Guardian) Length 122' “The superbly musical Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider played the concerto as freshly as one imagines it, and Chailly brought Shot in HDTV 1080 out the same merry innocence — not a bar sounded routine.” Cat. no. A055136570000 (The Berkshire Review) A production of ACCENTUS Music, in co-production with UNITEL CLASSICA and MDR, in cooperation with ARTE LiveWeb Folder: luebbeke.com Folder: WORLD SALES: C Major Entertainment +49-(0)3030306464 All rights reserved · credits not contractual Different territories · credits not rightsAll reserved · [email protected] www.unitelclassica.com Photos: © Gert Mothes.