Last night I came across a rich vein of music videos available free within the Amazon Prime service. Notably the Mahler symphonies in Abbado’s last traversal with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra (including No 6 which was I think the ultimate BAL choice in the work). All in HD sound & vision.
There seems to be a lot of other material too, haven’t yet investigated fully.
I came across it all searching for subsequent seasons of a series some here might enjoy: Mozart in the Jungle. Nothing to do with music in the rain forest: the jungle is the Big Apple - the series is a comedy set backstage (and sometimes on stage) at the “New York Symphony”... orchestral manoeuvres involving players, administrators, backers as the orchestra moves on from established white-haired English chief conductor to new wild-haired instinctive Latin wunder-youth “Rodrigo”.
It’s variable in quality & humour but good enough to keep me watching, not least a great cast: the two maestri are played by Malcolm McDowell and Gael García Bernal, no less, and the episodes trip along (4 seasons of 10 x 30 minute episodes)
More entertaining than the rival French Philharmonia on All 4 (though some common thematic elements - I suspect the French series was an attempt to trade on the Amazon series’s success).
Be interested to know what folk here think.
(Warning: the usual unconvincing acting of actual conducting/playing
)
There seems to be a lot of other material too, haven’t yet investigated fully.
I came across it all searching for subsequent seasons of a series some here might enjoy: Mozart in the Jungle. Nothing to do with music in the rain forest: the jungle is the Big Apple - the series is a comedy set backstage (and sometimes on stage) at the “New York Symphony”... orchestral manoeuvres involving players, administrators, backers as the orchestra moves on from established white-haired English chief conductor to new wild-haired instinctive Latin wunder-youth “Rodrigo”.
It’s variable in quality & humour but good enough to keep me watching, not least a great cast: the two maestri are played by Malcolm McDowell and Gael García Bernal, no less, and the episodes trip along (4 seasons of 10 x 30 minute episodes)
More entertaining than the rival French Philharmonia on All 4 (though some common thematic elements - I suspect the French series was an attempt to trade on the Amazon series’s success).
Be interested to know what folk here think.
(Warning: the usual unconvincing acting of actual conducting/playing
)
. Can you please provide a link or further details/instructions - thank you. 
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