Mahler Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

Mahler Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 concert. Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in 2009. Yuja Wang is soloist. TV direction by Michael Beyer. Released 2010, this disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio surround sound. Grade: A

Adorably cute, then 22-year old Chinese Yuja Wang zips thru the Prokofiev concerto for a rousing warm up. The Mahler Symphony No. 1 is extraordinarily well-played and warmly recorded. In the third movement I had the strange feeling that I was in Lucerne. Abbado and the hand-picked LFO have been playing Mahler at the Lucerne Summer Festival since 2003, getting better as they go. This was played 14 months ago; it's obvious the audience, the players, and Abbado were all ecstatic wth the results.

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