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Thanks tima
Don |
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Mahler 6th - Kirill Petrenko
The Berlin Philharmonic is offering free access to their on-line concerts until 3-31-2020.
This means you can watch and listen to new conductor Kirill Petrenko conduct Mahler's 6th Symphony. Access and nice program notes at the link. "The Sixth Symphony is one of Mahler’s most unsettling pieces: turmoil and idyll, triumph and catastrophe, march and chorale, confidence and resignation, nature, life and death – Mahler combines it all to create a vast musical cosmos." |
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I watched the 3rd a couple of nights ago and a performance of Mahler's songs. Outstanding both visually and musically.
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As mentioned in my original post I found this LP side 1 (of 4) noisey, crackly and largely unsatisfactory to play for a brand new record. I eventually tried 3 different copies, but no luck. Well... I returned to this set last night and played it with a different cartridge, the van den Hul Colibri Master Signature, and the special vdH stylus shape worked miracles - or so I conjecture - to turn this album into the gem it always wanted to be. My oh my, what a wonderful performance is this. The intersection of music with the vicissitudes of vinyl playback can dissuade one from recommending a particular Mahler performance, but dissuaded no more am I. Not sure how available this box is, but if you do vinyl, grab it if you see it. Gorgeous. |
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My favourite recording is Sir John Barbarolli conducting Mahler symphony no 6. The way he does all three hammerblows of fate in the final movement is quite dramatic.
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I'll also recommend Barbirolli for the Mahler 5th. HMV ASD 2518-9 |
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Here is a new Mahler 1 on cd and vinyl! Well, new this decade - record in May of 2012. Not sure on the release date. You can pre-order the 2 LP vinyl set on Amazon. Cd available now.
Vienna Symphoniker conducted by Italian Fabio Luisi who is the general music director of the Zurich Opera, principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and recently named music director for 2020-21 with the Dallas Symphony. There is also a Mahler 6 cd available with Luisi and the Vienna Symphoniker. Naxos SLP 001 Last edited by tima; 07-11-2020 at 05:46 AM. |
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Hi Tima and others,
I previously posted a listing here of all the Mahler vinyl discs listed on the annual TAS Super LP List: https://www.audioaficionado.org/show...&postcount=169 This year I was pleased to see that a disc I previously recommended here is now listed by TAS: https://www.audioaficionado.org/show...&postcount=182 YARLUNG YAR09270-148V If You Love for Beauty/Sasha Cooke, The Colburn Orchestra. This is a superb LP. There are two additional Mahler recommendations on the TAS list this year: EMI SLS 806 Mahler: Symphony No. 2 /Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra. I have this disc and also the original COLUMBIA (EMI) SAX 2473/2474 recording which is far better than SLS 806. And finally, “Mahler – The Vinyl Edition” on the Sony label – fifteen 180 gram discs of Bernstein’s Mahler symphonies plus Kindertotenlieder. I started with Number three tonight and loved it. It sounds like the Columbias, which I also have, but is better in every respect than the original Columbias. Available at Acoustic Sounds (and elsewhere?) Best, Don |
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Hi Don - Nice to hear from you. Thank you for your recommendations and noting Mahler recordings on the TAS list. All are fine selections. The Sasha Cooke album includes Mahler's Rückert Lieder. You can find it at the Yarlung site here. Wrt the Klemperer Mahler 2, you might like this post. I agree, Klemperer's 2nd is a superb rendition, one of the very best. Highy recommended. And indeed Bernstein's 1960's cycle is top-notch. Check this post for a bit more info. And yes, the set is still available at Acoustic Sounds. Ime, Columbia's original classical music issuances can be somewhat sketchy - they seemed to do a more consistent job with with jazz recordings. Best regards, Tim |
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Nowadays we see more and more orchestras producing their own recordings. This Mahler 1 is the product of the Wiener Symphoniker who is supported by the City of Vienna and by the Republic of Austria. We've got to applaud such efforts to bring music to people and encourage the classical music genre. Having said that, I had a somewhat mixed reaction to it. I love Mahler's First, absolutely love its flowing lyrical character. Love the off stage horns. Love the huge diversity of its themes. Fabio Luisi's interpretation is unigue - I won't go as far to describe it as 'quirky' but it is different. Portions and phrases I'm used to hearing as relaxed and easy are taken a slightly faster pace than I've heard before, and vice versa. Some arpeggios that typically flow upward are taken in almost a step-wise fashion. Luisi brings his own interpretation of timing to the score. In some ways it is very interesting, especially on first hearing. Different enough to keep in a collection. Alas sonically the album is maybe a 6/10. Low frequencies - basses, timpani - are muddled. There are several instances of a triangle in the first movement, I could barely hear a plaintive 'ping'. Mid-range is generally fine. Physically, my copy had hundreds of what I'll describe as 'small wierd spots' coming out of the run-out into the last quarter of the groove of sides A & B . I have no clue what they are and repeated cleaning did not remove them. Their contribution was crackly sound. Maybe this was a one-off or maybe its a production problem. Unless you are a completist, the mediocre sonics nixed it for me. There are other examples of Titan to recommend. |
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