A clash of cultures with genuinely exciting results: The Venezuelan firebrand maestro galvanises the esteemed Viennese orchestra, and everyone has a blast. The overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein—the orchestra loved him—sets the tone and Dudamel ensures that it fizzes. After that, it’s toe-tapping pops all the way. Yuja Wang and “Rhapsody in Blue” are a match made in heaven and the Viennese strings put a sheen on Barber’s Adagio for Strings that’s hard to resist.
- Berlin Philharmonic & Kirill Petrenko
- Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
- Berliner Festspielorchester, Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio Symphonieorchester, Vladimir Petroshoff, Lawrence Siegel & Anton Nanut
- Alfred Reiter, Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Dorothea Röschmann, Gunnar Gudbjornsson, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Jane Eaglen, Peter Seiffert, René Pape, Staatskapelle Berlin, Stephan Rügamer, Thomas Hampson & Waltraud Meier
- Alexandra Gruber, James Levine & Munich Philharmonic
- Alicia de Larrocha, London Symphony Orchestra & André Previn
- Anne-Sophie Mutter, Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles & John Williams