Friends,
It is so long that there has been any posting on this site, I thought I had been
dropped from the group.
I cannot help on the subject. of the last posting.  But I just wanted to say
that some time ago a member said that after listening to Mahler he found it very
hard to listen to any more music.I smiled a superior smile at such naivete. But
having just heard a televised performane of M6 given by Gergiev I know what he
means. I am wrung right out dry..
Normally if I have to listen to a TV broadcast of music I close my eyes: the
pictures are a distraction. But Gergiev seems to embody the music.
Most of you are very very familiar with performances of M's music. What do you
think of  Gegiev's realisation?
David Sutcliffe.

--- On Fri, 5/12/08, Joel Lazar <joellazar@...> wrote:

From: Joel Lazar <joellazar@...>
Subject: [Y! Mahler] Mahler 1st recordings
To: "Gustav Mahler & related Late Romantic Composers List"
<MAHLER-LIST@...>, "mahler" <mahler@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, 5 December, 2008, 7:36 PM






With apologies for cross posting:

For a presentation at the annual conference of the Conductors' Guild,
NYC, Friday 9 January 2009, on the First Symphony, I would be grateful
for help as follows:

I have some recollection that there is an off-the-air recording of a
live Bruno Walter/NY Phil Mahler 1st contemporaneous with his Columbia
studio recording [January 1954]. If this is in fact so, and if anyone
has a copy I might borrow, I'd be grateful.

Perhaps I am confusing this with the commercial Walter Mahler 2 and the
live performance recently released by Music & Arts.

If anyone has a CD transfer of the Borsamski/Berlin Radio performance
from 1953, I'd also appreciate a loan.

Needless to say, appropriate credit and acknowledgment will be given.

Private replies preferred--

Thanks so much!

Best wishes for the holidays--

jl














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