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« Reply #105 on: 09:54:24, 21-02-2007 »
Quote from: Stevo on 09:49:34, 21-02-2007
Just idly wondering...

Is there a better all-round Mahlerian than Claudio Abbado?

If there is, I haven't heard him.  Grin

No Stevo.
no there isn't.

http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=317.0
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« Reply #106 on: 09:57:14, 21-02-2007 »
Thanks for those links – the Mahler Day review brought back happy memories indeed! I may just be tempted to buy some of the Norrington Mahler to listen to what he’s done in Stuttgart. There’s an interesting customer review here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symphony-No-1-Gustav/dp/B000B8QHV2/sr=8-3/qid=1172050973/ref=sr_1_3/202-5913406-5145461?ie=UTF8&s=music

Have you heard Anima Eterna – Jos van Immerseel’s period orchestra? They’re also pushing the boundaries of  HIP and have recorded Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and Ravel; the latter is a super disc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravel-Bolero-Maurice/dp/B000GLKRR4/sr=8-1/qid=1172051256/ref=sr_1_1/202-5913406-5145461?ie=UTF8&s=music
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« Reply #107 on: 10:16:13, 21-02-2007 »
Hi IGI - the Ravel disc is the one I recommended in post 100! I agree - an excellent set of performances!
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« Reply #108 on: 10:21:24, 21-02-2007 »
Quote from: Rob_G on 22:18:37, 20-02-2007
I'm just getting into Gielen's 7th i downloaded last night, it really is a fine performance; his take on the B Major 'sunrise' music in the first movement is something special, just the tone he gets from his brass is different too. Great performance.

Hey

The entire Gielen set is absolutely full of insight and imagination and, yes, the seventh is pretty amazing too. If you get a chance, do try to hear his versions of 2, 3 and 6 too.

Nick
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« Reply #109 on: 17:38:44, 21-02-2007 »
Nick

Gielen's Resurrection arrived today. Hope to listen to it tonight.
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« Reply #110 on: 19:19:11, 21-02-2007 »
I love Mahler 7, I love all the emotional ups and downs. It's Mahler's ability to convey all different kinds of emotions that makes his music so popular.
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« Reply #111 on: 23:25:39, 22-02-2007 »
This might be a naive question but did Mahler write anything apart from symphonies or lieder - chamber music, piano ?? Huh
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« Reply #112 on: 23:40:58, 22-02-2007 »
Not much - there's a Piano Quartet - very early piece - but apart from the symphonies (and rejected/ revised movements like Blumine for No 1, and Totenfeier which turned into the 1st mt of No 2) and all the wonderful songs and song-cycles (the early songs are worth hearing - some, tho' not all, sound like "real" Mahler - and the cantata Das Klagende Lied has some marvellous moments: find a recording of the complete work, tho', Rattle or Nagano are good) there's just a suite of arrangements of music by Bach!

A tidy worklist, but strangely lacking in the scraps and chippings that can illuminate the later work of other composers!
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« Reply #113 on: 23:09:13, 23-02-2007 »
Thanks yr info Roslynmuse - so a Mahler experience would be shortish...of course think he spent lot of time conducting i guess..still everything he did compose was special  Smiley
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« Reply #114 on: 00:38:06, 24-02-2007 »
Don't forget the re-orchestrations of the Beethoven and Schumann Symphonies.
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« Reply #115 on: 22:13:49, 25-02-2007 »
Didn't he once do his own rearrangement of the third Bach orchestral suite in New York with himself on 'harpsichord' - in fact a piano with drawing pins in the hammers?

The days are past when a self-respecting Mahler cycle could afford to omit this work. Wink
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« Reply #116 on: 20:43:08, 26-02-2007 »
I just am listening to Mahler 1 symphony. I am listening to it after composer of the week Wagner and some sections of it seems like Wagner to me, but some others are not as much. On the whole it does sound like Wagner.
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« Reply #117 on: 22:20:01, 26-02-2007 »
well spotted, tp!
in fact Mahler quotes directly from Das Rheingold in the last movement of the 1st symphony.

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« Reply #118 on: 17:20:30, 27-02-2007 »
The style of Mahler is not distinct.
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« Reply #119 on: 19:00:34, 27-02-2007 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 17:20:30, 27-02-2007
The style of Mahler is not distinct.

Quite right. apart form being quite, quite wrong, of course.
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