I have fallen in love with Gurrelieder after attending Philharmonia Orchestra's opening gala concert to The City of Dreams: Vienna 1900~1935 series, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen -- magnificently intense, dazzlingly powerful, heartrendingly beautiful, with delicately tender moments of love. It is likely one of the best concerts I have ever had the pleasure of attending.
The video below is a recording of German Symphony Orchestra (RSO) Berlin's rendition of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, with Susan Dunn as Tove, Brigitte Fassbaender as Waldtaube, Siegfried Jerusalem as Waldemar, Herman Becht as Klaus-Narr, and Hans Hotter as the peasant Sprecher.
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