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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1 (1917 Final Version): III. Allegro vivace - Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163: III. Allegretto grazioso - Molto vivace - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Mahler: Symphony No.1 - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Debussy: La mer / Stravinsky: The Firebird - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Brahms: Symphony No.4 - LA Phil Live - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Adams: City Noir - LA Phil Live - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra - LA Phil Live - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Scherzo For Motorcycle And Orchestra - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Scherzo For Motorcycle And Orchestra From "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade" / Live At Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2019 / A
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Fawkes The Phoenix - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Olympic Fanfare And Theme - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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The Raiders March - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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The Raiders March From "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" / Live At Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2019 / Atmos
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Adventures On Earth - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Throne Room And Finale - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Out To Sea / The Shark Cage Fugue - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Out To Sea / The Shark Cage Fugue From "Jaws" / Medley / Live At Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2019 / Atmos
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Yoda's Theme - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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The Flight To Neverland - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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The Flight To Neverland From "Hook" / Live At Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2019 / Atmos
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The Inaugural Concert - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Strauss, R.: Also sprach Zarathustra - Berliner Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel
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Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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Il modo in cui Dudamel interpreta questo materiale è brillantemente maturo. Le gustose melodie di questo compositore non sono mai sovrastimate … intelligenza, questo è ciò che risalta da questo disco.

CD review Tchaikovsky, The Times (London), 11 Marzo 2011


Nato il 26 Gennaio 1981 a Barquisimeto, in Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel ha iniziato a suonare il violino quando aveva dieci anni, e successivamente ha cominciato a studiare composizione. Nel 1996 iniziò gli studi di direzione d’orchestra con Rodolfo Saglimbeni e nel corso dello stesso anno fu nominato direttore musicale dell’Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. Nel 1999, ha continuato i suoi studi di direzione d’orchestra con José Antonio Abreu ed è stato nominato direttore della Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (SBYOV), un ensemble fondato da Abreu che è largamente conosciuto per il suo importante ruolo nel programma di educazione e miglioramento delle vite di decine di migliaia di ragazzi e bambini vittime della povertà in Venezuela. Dudamel è molto richiesto come direttore ospite e ha perciò lavorato con alcune tra le più rinomate orchestre e con i migliori musicisti. Attualmente è direttore principale della Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra ed è direttore della Los Angeles Philhar¬monic Orchestra e della Simón Bolívar Symphony orchestra.

2000 Con la SBYOV intraprende un acclamato tour in Germania. Dudamel viene nominato direttore della Youth Orchestra of the Andean Countries e direttore principale della Youth Orchestra of the Americas

2002 Finalista nel concorso inaugurale Maazel/Vilar per direttori d’orchestra

2004 Vince il concorso inaugurale Bamberger Symphoniker Mahler; sostituisce Frans Brüggen con la Philharmonia Orchestra di Londra al Beethovenfest di Bonn; dirige la Mahler Chamber Orchestra a Caracas; Sir Simon Rattle e Claudio Abbado accettano l’invito di Dudamel a visitare il Venezuela e dirigere la sua orchestra.

2005 Dirige la Philharmonia al Festival Hall di Londra all’interno dell’International Conductors’ Academy; debutta con la Israel Philharmonic e ai BBC Proms. Va in tour in Germania con la SBYOV. Altri debutti in quest’anno includono l’orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia a Roma e Radio France, oltre al debutto negli Stati Uniti con la Los Angeles Philharmonic. Sigla un contratto esclusivo con la Deutsche Grammophon

2006 Debutta, tra gli altri, con la City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, la Dresden Staatskapelle e Filarmonica della Scala. Fa il tour in Israele con la Israel Philharmonic, il tour dell’Italia e della Germania con la SBYOV, e fa un’apparizione con la Boston Symphony a Tanglewood. I suoi ingaggi operistici includono L’elisir d’amore di Donizetti alla Berlin Staatsoper e il Don Giovanni di Mozart alla Scala. La sua prima pubblicazione con Deutsche Grammophon, le Sinfonie n. 5 e 7 di Beethoven con la SBYOV, vale a Dudamel un Echo Award nella categoria “New Artist of the Year 2007”. Viene nominato direttore principale della Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra a partire dal 2007/08

2007 Viene ingaggiato per concerti con LA Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Berlin Staatskapelle e Gewandhaus di Lipsia. Debutta con la Chicago Symphony, la New York Philharmonic e con i Wiener Philarmoniker. Il tanto acclamato tour con la SBYOV include performances ai BBC Proms, al Festival di Edimburgo, Schleswig-Holstein e Lucerna. Un evento speciale e unico è la sua apparizione con la Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra al concerto per il compleanno del Papa in Vaticano (disponibile in DVD). Viene acclamato per le sue registrazioni della Quinta Sinfonia di Mahler con la SBYOV e per il Concerto per orchestra di Bartok con la LA Philharmonic (quest’ultimo solo in versione download). Riceve il Premio de la Latindad per gli straordinari contributi dati alla cultura latina; riceve anche il Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Young Artists

2008 Dudamel e la SBYOV debuttano stabili al Festival di Salisburgo, tornano al Festival di Lucerna all’interno di un lungo tour, e iniziano una tournèe in Asia. Esegue numerosi concerti con la Gothenburg Symphony, la LA Philharmonic, la Radio France Philharmonic e con la Philhar¬monia. A giugno fa la sua prima apparizione con i Berliner Philarmoniker al Waldbühne. Dirige La Bohème di Puccini alla Staatsoper di Berlino e alla Scala. Incisioni: un’acclamata compilation di capolavori, intitolata Fiesta, registrata dal vivo a Caracas con la SBYOV; La Symphonie fantastique di Berlioz con la LA Philharmonic è disponibile solo in download. The Promise of Music, un documentario su Dudamel e la SBYOV, viene presentato in DVD. Alla SBYOV viene conferito il prestigioso premio spagnolo Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las artes; assieme al suo mentore Abreu, a Dudamel viene conferito il premio Q Prize dell’Università di Harvard

2009 L’anno inizia con la Sinfonia n. 9 di Beethoven con la Berlin Staatskapelle e prosegue con vari concerti con Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic e con la Philharmonia orchestra, oltre ai Wiener Philarmoniker e ai Berliner Philarmoniker; apparizioni con la Gothenburg Symphony in aggiunta a un tour con la SBYOV in Europa e Nord America. Dirige il Don Giovanni di Mozart alla Staatsoper di Berlino e debutta con la Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Diventa ufficialmente direttore della LA Philharmonic in autunno. Le sue uscite discografiche in quest’anno con la SBYOV includono la Sinfonia n.5 di Tchaikovsky e Francesca da Rimini (CD), oltre al suo concerto al Festival di Salisburgo nel 2008 con Argerich e i Capuçon brothers (DVD); il suo concerto inaugurale alla Disney Hall come direttore della LA Philharmonic viene pubblicato in DVD e in versione download

2010 Durante quest’anno porta la Carmen di Bizet alla Scala e svolge alcuni concerti con la Gothenburg orchestra a Gothenburg e al Festival delle Canarie, con la Los Angeles orchestra sia a Los Angeles che in un lungo tour negli Stati Uniti, con i Wiener Philarmoniker a Vienna, al Carnegie Hall di New York e al Festival di Lucerna, e con la SBYOV e i Berliner Philharmoniker (Concerto di Capodanno con la mezzosoprano Elīna Garanča). Quest’anno pubblica: Le Sacre du Printemps di Stravinsky, La noche de los mayas di Revueltas con la SBYOV e, su DVD, Celebración, il concerto del galà di apertura della stagione 2010/11 della LA Philharmonic

2011 Concerti con la LA Philharmonic alla Disney Hall, al loro primo tour europeo e durante l’estate all’Hollywood Bowl; con la Gothenburg Symphony sia a Gothenburg che in tournèe in Svezia, Oslo e Reykjavik; con la (rinominata) Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra del Venezuela durante un tour estivo in Sud America, seguito da un tour europeo con performances anche a Festival di Salisburgo, ai BBC Proms e ad Istanbul; con i Wiener Philarmoniker e con i Berliner Philarmoniker al Festival di Pasqua di Salisburgo. Nell’inverno 2011 inaugura i live broadcasts con la LA Philharmonic in più di 450 cinema degli Stati Uniti e del Canada, e a giugno, il documentario Let the Children Play viene trasmesso in 500 cinema del Nord America. A Maggio entra a far parte della Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Gramophone lo nomina “Artista dell’anno”. In quest’anno Dudamel pubblica il concerto di Capodanno 2010 con la Filarmonica di Berlino ed Elīna Garanča su DVD; una registrazione audio di “Tchaikovsky e Shakespeare” con la Simón Bolívar orchestra; un cofanetto di 3 album delle sinfonie di Sibelius, Nielsen e Bruckner con la Gothenburg Symphony; due download per Deutsche Grammophon con la LA Philharmonic: Slonimsky’s Earbox di Adams, la Sinfonia “Jeremiah” di Bernstein e la Quarta Sinfonia di Brahms (Grammy®: “Best Orchestral Performance”)

2012 L’anno inizia con un ciclo completo su Mahler a Los Angeles e Caracas, condiviso con la LA Philharmonic e con la Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Prosegue con la Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Svezia, Portogallo e Spagna; dirige le sinfonie di Brahms a Parigi con l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France ed esegue concerti con i Berliner Philarmoniker a Berlino, Parigi e Vienna. In primavera dirige la sua LA Philarmonic orchestra includendo anche performances del Don Giovanni e la prima mondiale di The Gospel According to the Other Mary di Adams. In giugno, partecipa allo Schönbrunn Summer Night Concert con i Wiener Philarmoniker e tiene altri concerti con la Gothenburg orchestra in Svezia e con la Simón Bolívar orchestra alla Festival Hall di Londra e al Concertgebouw di Amsterdam. Uscite discografiche: il primo “Best of” intitolato “Discoveries”; l’Eroica di Beethoven e le Ouvertures con la Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; sia su CD che DVD: il Summer Night Concert di Schönbrunn del 2012; un’uscita solo in versione LP della Sinfonia Scozzese di Mendelssohn con i Wiener Philarmoniker; in versione download i concerti Deutsche Grammophon con la LA Philharmonic con musiche di Gershwin An American in Paris e la Quinta Sinfonia di Sibelius




Dudamel’s handling of this material is refreshingly mature. The composer’s succulent melodies are never oversentimentalised . . . Intelligence, that’s what leaps out from this disc.

CD review Tchaikovsky, The Times (London), 11 March 2011


Born on 26 January 1981 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel was ten when he took up the violin, and soon was also studying composition. In 1996, he began his conducting studies with Rodolfo Saglimbeni and during the same year was named music director of the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. In 1999, he continued his conducting studies with José Antonio Abreu and was appointed music director of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (SBYOV), an ensemble founded by Abreu that is widely recognized for its role in transforming the lives of tens of thousands of impoverished youths. Dudamel is also in great demand as a guest conductor and has worked with the world’s most renowned orchestras and musicians. He is currently principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Los Angeles Philhar¬monic and Simón Bolívar Symphony orchestras.

2000 With the SBYOV he undertakes a much-acclaimed tour of Germany. Dudamel is appointed music director of the Youth Orchestra of the Andean Countries and principal conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas

2002 Finalist in the inaugural Maazel/Vilar Conductors’ Competition

2004 Wins inaugural Bamberger Symphoniker Mahler Competition; deputizes for Frans Brüggen with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra at the Beethovenfest, Bonn; conducts Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Caracas; Sir Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado accept Dudamel’s invitation to visit Venezuela and conduct his orchestra

2005 Conducts the Philharmonia at London’s Festival Hall as part of the International Conductors’ Academy; debut with the Israel Philharmonic and at the BBC Proms. Tours Germany with the SBYOV. Other European debuts this year include the orchestras of Rome’s Santa Cecilia and Radio France. US debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Signs exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon

2006 Debuts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle and Filarmonica della Scala among others. Tour of Israel with the Israel Philharmonic, tour of Italy and Germany with the SBYOV, and an appearance with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood. Opera engagements include Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Berlin Staatsoper and Mozart’s Don Giovanni at La Scala. His first DG release, Beethoven’s Symphonies nos. 5 & 7 with the SBYOV, brings Dudamel an Echo Award in the category “New Artist of the Year 2007”. Dudamel is appointed principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, starting in 2007/08

2007 Engagements include concerts with the LA Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Berlin Staatskapelle and Leipzig Gewandhaus. Debut appearances include the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic. A highly acclaimed concert tour with the SBYOV includes appearances at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Schleswig-Holstein and Lucerne festivals. A special highlight is his appearance with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra at a birthday concert for the Pope at the Vatican (available on DVD). Acclaim for his recordings of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the SBYOV and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with the LA Philharmonic (the latter as download only). Awarded the Premio de la Latindad for outstanding contributions to Latin cultural life; he also receives the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Young Artists

2008 Dudamel and the SBYOV make their debut with a Salzburg Festival residency, return to the Lucerne Festival as part of an extensive tour of Europe, and make their debut Asian tour. Numerous concerts with the Gothenburg Symphony, LA Philharmonic, Radio France Philharmonic and Philhar¬monia. In June he makes his first appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne. Puccini’s La Bohème at Berlin’s Staatsoper and La Scala. Releases: a highly acclaimed compilation of Latin-American showpieces, entitled Fiesta, recorded live in Caracas with the SBYOV; Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the LA Philharmonic is available for download only. The Promise of Music, a full-length documentary film about Dudamel and the SBYOV, is issued on DVD. The SBYOV is granted Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts; along with his mentor Dr. Abreu, Dudamel is awarded the Q Prize from Harvard University for extraordinary service to children

2009 The year begins with Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the Berlin Staatskapelle and continues with concerts with the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Philharmonia orchestras as well as the Berlin and the Vienna Philharmonic; appearances with the Gothenburg Symphony plus tours with the SBYOV to Europe and North America. Conducts Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Berlin Staatsoper and makes his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Begins his tenure as music director of the LA Philharmonic in autumn. His releases this year with the SBYOV feature Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 5 and Francesca da Rimini (CD) and their 2008 Salzburg Festival concert with Martha Argerich and the Capuçon brothers (DVD); his inaugural Disney Hall concert as LA Philharmonic music director is released on DVD and for download

2010 This year brings Bizet’s Carmen at La Scala plus concerts with his Gothenburg orchestra at home and at the Festival de Canarias, with his Los Angeles orchestra at home and on an extensive US tour, the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna, at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at the Lucerne Festival, and with SBYOV and Berliner Philharmoniker (New Year’s Eve Concert featuring mezzo Elīna Garanča). For release this year: Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps and Revueltas’s La noche de los mayas with the SBYOV and, on DVD, Celebración: the gala opening concert of the LA Philharmonic’s 2010/11 season

2011 Concerts with the LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall, on their first European tour and in summer at the Hollywood Bowl; with the Gothenburg Symphony at home and on tours in Sweden, Oslo, and Reykjavik; with the (renamed) Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela on a summer tour of South America followed by a European tour including performances at the Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms and in Istanbul; with the Vienna Philharmonic and with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Salzburg Easter Festival. In winter 2011 he inaugurates live broadcasts with the LA Philharmonic in over 450 movie theatres across the US and Canada, and in June, the documentary Let the Children Play is shown in 500 North American cinemas. In May, he is inducted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Named Gramophone’s “Artist of the Year”. This year’s Dudamel releases include the 2010 Berlin Philharmonic New Year’s Eve Concert with Elīna Garanča on DVD; audio release of “Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare” with the Simón Bolívar orchestra; a 3-CD box of symphonies by Sibelius, Nielsen and Bruckner with the Gothenburg Symphony; and two downloads on DG Concerts with the LA Philharmonic: Adams’s Slonimsky’s Earbox plus Bernstein’s “Jeremiah” Symphony and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony (Grammy®: “Best Orchestral Performance”)

2012 His year begins with a complete Mahler cycle in Los Angeles and Caracas, shared between the LA Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. It continues with his Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, Portugal and Spain; the Brahms symphonies in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; and concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, Paris and Vienna. Spring concerts with his LA orchestra at home to include performances of Don Giovanni and the world premiere of Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary. In June, the Schönbrunn Summer Night Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic and concerts with his Gothenburg orchestra in Sweden and with his Simón Bolívar orchestra at London’s Festival Hall and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Releases: Dudamel’s first ‘Best of’ album Discoveries; Beethoven’s Eroica plus Ouvertures with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; on CD and DVD: the 2012 Schönbrunn Summer Night Concert; LP-only release of Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic; Downloads on DG Concerts with the LA Philharmonic: Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony