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Gustav Mahler Top Songs
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• I: Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor - Gustav Mahler
• Der Trunkene im Fruhling - Gustav Mahler
• Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu - Gustav Mahler
• Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen - Gustav Mahler
• "Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n" - Gustav Mahler
• In gem?chlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast - Gustav Mahler
• Bedachtig:Nicht eilen - Gustav Mahler
• Rondo - Finale: Allegro - Mahler
• Symphony No. 3, IV. Sehr Langsam - Mahler
• Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 1 in D "Titan": Langsam, Schleppend, Wie ein Naturlaut Im Anfang sehr gemachlich - belebts Zeltmass - Gustav Mahler
• Andante moderato - Gustav Mahler
• Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen - Gustav Mahler
• Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen! - Gustav Mahler
• Der Trunkene im Fruhling - Mahler
• II. In gemachlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast - Gustav Mahler
• Lob des Hohen Verstandes - Gustav Mahler
• II. In Gemachlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast. - Gustav Mahler
• I. Bedachtig. Nicht Eilen - Recht Gemachlich - Gustav Mahler
• Rondo burlesque - Gustav Mahler
• In ruhig fliessender Bewegung - Gustav Mahler
• Andante moderato - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No.1 in D major - Langsam. Schleppend- Im Anfang sehr gemachlich - Gustav Mahler
• Waldmaerchen,Forest Tale- Langsam und trauermerisch - Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler Discography
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• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler
• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler
• MAHLER: Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand" - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 1 in D major schleppen - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 4 in G major - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor Streng - Wie ein Kondukt - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 1 in D major schleppen - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 7 in E minor "Das Lied der Nacht" - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No.10 in F-sharp major Adagio - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 8 - Gustav Mahler
• Das Lied Von Der Erde - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 4 / Lieder - Gustav Mahler
• Symphonies No. 9 and 10 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 7 "Song of the night" - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 1 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphonies No. 2 and 4 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 3 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphonies No,. 5 and 6 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler
• Das Lied Von Der Erde - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony 1 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 6 - Gustav Mahler
• Schuricht: Mahler - Symphony No. 3, Songs of a Wayfarer - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler
• Das Klagende Lied - Gustav Mahler
• Mahler: Symphony Nos. 1 & 3 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No.3 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 10 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 10 (Wheeler) - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 5 / Das Lied Von Der Erde - Gustav Mahler
• Walter: Mahler - Symphonies 1 "Titan" & 2 "Resurrection" - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 2 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 1 (With "Blumine") - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 4 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 4 - Gustav Mahler
• Das Lied Von Der Erde - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 7 - Gustav Mahler
• Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - Gustav Mahler
• Das Klagende Lied - Gustav Mahler
• Adagio Mahler - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 2 in C Minor - Gustav Mahler
• Das Lied von der Erde - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 7 - Gustav Mahler
• Mahler: Symphony No. 7 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony 10 (Slatkin) - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 1 "Titan" - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 9 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 9 In D Major - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 6 in A Minor Tragic - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 4 in G Major - Gustav Mahler
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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies |
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Varied Ways of Looking at Mahler
In general, I don't find "complete symphonies" of anybody with the same conductor satisfying overviews (exceptions that break the rule, Beethoven: Karajan's from the 1960s, Harnoncourt's, and Furtwangler's compilations which include the wartime Eroica from Berlin and the Pastorale from his return to the BPO concert). Conductors as a rule are better at some than at others. Specifically with Mahler, I need to admit that I don't like all the symphonies equally, nor do I find any one conductor doing them equally as well, so overall, I suggest don't get this box but look for individual items. Let's take one symphony at a time:
First: not one of my favourites, I think it's very loud. Bernstein brings out the klezmer aspects which are cute, but perhaps more subdued highlighting would be enough. It's the "Titan," not the "Jewish" symphony. The performance I enjoy, given that I'm not a fan of the work, is Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orch which includes the Blumine movement (excised by Mahler after the premiere), and shows the later Philadelphia sound at its best.
Second: The earlier movements of the symphony are insufferable, as well as parts of the last.... just when you hope Mahler is through with gaucheries, along comes another embarrasing little march. Notwithstanding shortcomings, by the time the chorus comes in, it becomes sublime. No one can top Klemperer/Wilhelm Pitz, serious music making at its best. Abbado from Lucerne a close second. Rattle from Birmingham a refreshing third.
Third: Have not heard fabled Horenstein, so regrettably, not part of this survey. Otherwise, Abbado from Vienna (Jessie Norman), slower, Abbado from Berlin (Larsson),a bit sprightlier, Essa Pekka Salonen from LA (Larsson), great clarity and passion. This is one of my favourite Mahler symphonies.
Fourth: Reiner with the CSO and Lisa della Casa, to my knowledge his only Mahler symphony, and a great one it is, lyrical and powerful. This symphony has lovely moments, even if the end is a bit saccharine/silly, nonetheless, it is quite fine. Bernstein on DG is fine, but having a boy soprano (Alan Bergius, whom he also used in live concert with the VPO in New York) just doesn't work and is distracting.
Fifth: Another of my favourites and hors de concours go to Karajan. He totally commands the structure of the entire piece and brings it all to bear in the climactic conclusion. ..... a stunning, moving job. Barbarolli is more leisurely but persuasive in a somewhat muted way. Bernstein brings his sense of drama to this sprawling work, very effective in individual parts but does not convey a feeling that one has travelled a musical journey from the first note to the last. The later recording is preferable to the NY Philhamonic.
Sixth: For a budget price incredible buy, there's George Szell with the Cleveland in a live performance who keeps you at the edge of your seat. It's Tragic going on Hysterical, but a thrill to hear. Karajan excels as do Bernstein and Boulez.
Seventh: I've yet to fully make this symphony work for me. Nonetheless, Abbado with the BPO does as much for it as I have been able to grasp, closely followed by Boulez. Bernstein makes much drama out of the music which to my ears, just makes it sound even more hollow, to paraphrase WS much sound and fury, signifying nothing. To summarize my feelings about this symphony, it sounds like a second rate, ingenious composer trying to write a symphony that will sound as if by Mahler. I've changed my mind about specific pieces of music in the course of my life, but every time I've heard this symphony, even with renowned conductors and orchestras, it reinforces what I have felt in the past.
Eighth: Solti and the CSO recorded in Vienna. No one comes close. The Veni Creator movement noisy and musically messy as always and as with everybody. Once we get to Goethe it is sublime.
Ninth: Karajan's live performance with the BSO is powerful verging on sublime. An entirely different approach, with double underlining whenever he can, Bernstein's ONE performance with the BSO is the best ninth he ever recorded. Extraordinarily moving overall, except some accents to which one reacts: Lenny no, it's just a bit too much, nonetheless a great performance. His with the Concertgebouw is also fine. The Walter/VPO is a must for historical reasons and it is a good performance, even if orchestral discipline is spotty.
Tenth: Rattle seems to have staked a claim on this reconstructed work and does quite efficient work with it. However, I am very fond of the Ormandy version (the first ever made of the Cooke fleshing out). He conducts it as a feast for Phildelphia Sound..... and succeeds splendidly. It's a joy to hear and endures repeated hearings.
Das Lied von der Erde: With a deep historical bow to Kirsten Thorborg, Kathleen Ferrier, Patzak, Walter and the VPO, in more modern sound we have three superlative recordings, each with Christa Ludwig, who probably understands this music better than any other solo around, and for the longest time had the richness, intelligence, heft, evennes, and tessitura to do it full justice: Klemperer with Wunderlich, Karajan with Kollo, and, on DVD with Bernstein with Kollo and the Israel Ph. from the Vienna Kontzerthaus. The DVD is particularly moving. Nan Merriman with Eugen Jochum, and Maureen Forrester with Reiner are also fine options.
Thus, don't settle on one conductor....... there was Mahler before, during and after Bernstein. My reluctance to endorse Bernstein wholeheartedly, though I find much to appreciate there, is that the hyper-emotionalism more often than not is episodic, thereby taking from the musical structure of the pieces as a whole and, ironically, thereby diminishing their emotional impact. I guess it all becomes too much about Lenny and not about the piece.
Groundbreaking but partly outdated
Recorded 1960-67, this is the first complete cycle of Mahler's numbered symphonies (1-9 + no. 10 Adagio), and, as such, an essential purchase. Add Bernstein's 1966 classic recording of Das Lied von der Erde (Decca), and you get a piece of recording history: the development of the Mahler boom in the sixties.
How do these recordings stand today? The interpretations of the third, fourth, and seventh are very fine, even exceptional, and, despite their age, the recordings are sonically impressive as well. NYPO plays marvellously. The seventh, in particular, is a reference disc.
The remaining recordings are not really for the desert island, however. The fifth, for instance, is very unsuccessful and badly recorded too. Bernstein's later account on DG is clearly an improvement. The same holds for the second symphony, which you also find on DG in a later, much improved and moving interpretation. But here we have also a crowded field of classic performances, such as Klemperer's second (EMI) and Walter's fifth (SONY). Both are preferable to Bernstein's recordings, old or new.
The first, sixth, eight and ninth are quite good but not exceptional. No one beats Kubelik's first (DG). Mitropoulos (BMG Great Conductors) and Barbirolli (EMI) own the sixth. The eight - well, here we have Horenstein (BBC) and Mitropoulos (Orfeo) as classic, first choices. And for the ninth, Ancerl (Supraphon), Barbirolli (EMI), Klemperer (EMI) and Walter (SONY) sound far more attractive and fresh than Bernstein's mannered account.
If you're a collector this box is of course essential - regardless all critical considerations. But if you just look for an excellent and consistent Mahler box, go for Gary Bertini's cycle on EMI, which you get for a super-bargain price. It's a contemporary and future classic.
Thus I recommend a pick of individual Bernstein SONY CDs: the third, the fourth and the seventh. Add his fifth and second from his DG recordings, and his 1966 Das Lied von der Erde (Decca). These recordings are what I take to be the "essentials" of the Bernstein Mahler legacy.
Outstanding Mahler Compilation
I think is very important for a Mahler Fan to hear carefully all his work. This compilation allows you to enjoy that experience. A better sound quality for some symphonies could be a great plus, but you have to consider that this is a remasterized old record.
Leonard Bernstein just express the true passion that Mahler put on his work. It's incredible that (using the 8ve Symphony as an example) with fewer instruments than in the Abbado version, the feeling is even better. Simply outstanding.
Great price, great compilation. Lot of Mahler.
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