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I’m not a fan of Karajan, but the recording of Mahler 6 broadcast by Sarah Walker today blew me away. That final chord is so terrifyingly unexpected. I wasn’t surprised to learn that Mahler agonized over its orchestration.
My benchmark recording is Barbirolli’s, so I always feel the first movement is too fast no matter who the conductor is.
Alban Berg attended the first performance with Mahler conducting and raved about it afterwards to anyone who would listen.
Anyway, that’s my one post for today.
Auf wiedersehn.
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MT Wessel
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« Reply #2 on: 01:49:49, 26-10-2008 » |
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Yes. I will ?
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« Reply #3 on: 12:25:01, 26-10-2008 » |
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Not so sure about Mahler, but I have been wondering what happened to Maureen Lipman over the last few years. Is the old girl still knocking about?
p.s. not a bit of it! But I have been known to get extremely sick without Beethoven or Brahms.
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« Reply #5 on: 13:23:25, 26-10-2008 » |
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Yes. I will ? Sorry Peter. I misread it for Wagner (shiver). ... Mahler agonized over its orchestration .... I believe that Mahler was a troubled soul in general. It's all in the music and IMO Mahler's one of the best.  |
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« Reply #6 on: 21:14:19, 26-10-2008 » |
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Turf, can you show me the way to the I Don't Understand This Thread room???
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #7 on: 22:06:36, 26-10-2008 » |
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Turf, can you show me the way to the I Don't Understand This Thread room???
I rather doubt that anyone could realistically show you that which probably doesn't exist. Whilst I cannot imagine musical life without the presence and immense legacy of Mahler, the actual thread topic wording leaves me about as perplexed as I imagine it probably leaves you... |
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« Reply #8 on: 00:22:57, 27-10-2008 » |
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Sorry, tins, can't help you. Mahler is my oxygen.
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« Reply #9 on: 00:44:13, 27-10-2008 » |
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Turf, can you show me the way to the I Don't Understand This Thread room???
This is the I Don't Understand This Thread Room. (cue spooky music) |
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« Reply #10 on: 01:30:33, 27-10-2008 » |
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Turf, can you show me the way to the I Don't Understand This Thread room???
This is the I Don't Understand This Thread Room. (cue spooky music) You hum it son. I'll play it ? spooky,spooky,spooky. must be spooky. its a spooky world ... Regards Björn Spooky |
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« Reply #13 on: 05:23:23, 27-10-2008 » |
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Turf, can you show me the way to the I Don't Understand This Thread room???
I rather doubt that anyone could realistically show you that which probably doesn't exist. Whilst I cannot imagine musical life without the presence and immense legacy of Mahler, the actual thread topic wording leaves me about as perplexed as I imagine it probably leaves you... It's a quote from the film Educating Rita - Rita is flat-hunting and visits a house owned by an overwrought eccentric hippy, played by Maureen Lipman - whose first words as she answers the door to Rita, to the sound of Mahler blasting on a stereo, are "Would't you just die without Mahler?" |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #14 on: 08:56:18, 27-10-2008 » |
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Turf, can you show me the way to the I Don't Understand This Thread room???
I rather doubt that anyone could realistically show you that which probably doesn't exist. Whilst I cannot imagine musical life without the presence and immense legacy of Mahler, the actual thread topic wording leaves me about as perplexed as I imagine it probably leaves you... It's a quote from the film Educating Rita - Rita is flat-hunting and visits a house owned by an overwrought eccentric hippy, played by Maureen Lipman - whose first words as she answers the door to Rita, to the sound of Mahler blasting on a stereo, are "Would't you just die without Mahler?" Well, dammit, of course! I'd forgotten that. How stupid of me! I missed that reference completely... |
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