Film / nonfiktion / instrumentalorkesterkor

Music is the language of the heart and soul : a portrait of Mariss Jansons


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BBC music magazine

2012 July

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Geoff Brown (musikanmelder)

2012 July

"Robert Neumüller's portrait film about Mariss Jansons keeps hopping madly from place to place. In part this is a fitting reflection of the great conductor's international upbringing and career, though some of the hops are prompted more by directorial fidgets ... using interviews, nostalgic location trips, brief staged reconstructions, newspaper clippings ... The Mahler film fully displays Jansons's passionate physical engagement with the music".


The gramophone

2012 July

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Ken Smith

2012 July

"It takes some childhood memories of Stalinist repression to unveil some depth behind Janson's warm, unassuming surface ... Only the sloppy English subtitles keep this from being a thoroughly professional product. The presumptions in the documentary are put well into practice in Mahler's Second Symphony ... Jansons offers an expressively fluid reading".


International record review

2012 October

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Julian Haylock

2012 October

"Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw ... are on tremendous form in the 'Resurrection' (No. 2), playing and singing with the greatest sensitivity and conviction. Yet compared to monumental, brooding, inexorable power of Klemperer (EMI) or the emotional meltdown of Bernstein (DG DVD), one is left with the sense of an expressive dimension of this epic score being left unexplored".