Hi all, The following articles have been added to the Mahler Archives or to the website of The Chicago Mahlerites. I strongly urge you to download the M8...
... Paul, if you are looking for Mahler's biography, I suggest that you start with Jonathan Carr's book. It is easy to read, and you get the gist of things ...
... I would only say that the four huge vols of dear Henry-Louis are not easy to read without a deep interest in opera. So much is devoted to opera productions...
Any top recommendations for this symphony, which one could describe as strikingly pre-Mahlerian? I have Markevitch on CD, rather classical and bright but still...
Tom Dent <tdent@...> wrote: [[Any top recommendations for this symphony, which one could describe as strikingly pre-Mahlerian?]] If you are refering a...
... I have no idea what strikingly pre-Mahlerian means in reference to anyone. As to Tch 5+6 I am very smitten with Mavrinsky's Leningrad stereo recordings. ...
... Thomas, you should try to find one of the Furtwangler performances - sheer molten energy. Karajan's performances are all good - although the Fifth was...
There is a recording dated 1991 on the Elektra label with Ozawa and the BSO. I remember the PBS series Evening at Symphony and seeing Ozawa conduct this ...
Eric, I had not noticed the similarity between the Tchaikovsky and the Poulenc before, but I do now. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I'm not really...
In a message dated 2/27/2005 5:08:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Stop me if I've told this one before - but one of the cats I used to "sit" for went...
... describe ... Good thing you didn't ask the other list where I've noticed quite a few incidents recently where people killed a recording they haven't ...
... I can thoroughly second this recommendation, at least the 1951 Cairo performance which I have on Archipel. It is simply one of the most intense ...
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... The orchestra will be doing M5,8 and the 10 adagio next season. ... Aloha and Mahalo, Eric Nagamine Visit my orchestral webcast listing page at: ...
... I would think that the recent Naxos issue of the Berlin Furtie 6th would be good. ... I thought the recent SACD/CD LS re-issue quite fine, though...
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:59:42 -0500 ... Whose type, Szell's or Tchaikovsky's? "Perhaps....some value to be gotten..." Talk about damning with faint praise. Tom...
... And I add: Well I for one can certainly recommend this performance. Perhaps Stephen is right in his characterisations (though I think it is generally...
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Good morning to all of you. When reading that a recent compact disc has been recorded live, one could be too naïve when thinking it has been recorded only...
... Bad thing. There is a place for studio recordings with all their "perfections" and there is a place for Konzertmitschnitte that really are that. Is there a...
Hi! It's a fake problem to me, a live recording will always be a recording and thus have nothing to do with the real experience of music being performed here...
... Not likely. It will be called a Konzertmitschnitt and IF honest, some term will be added to note the patches. Yoel Der Bach singt voller Wohllaut durch das...
Hi, ... The English language has a good term for it herself. I found it in the liner notes of a Peter Gabriel album, where PG has to admit that some additional...
R. Kayser
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:09:08 -0600, tlhman@... ... Both. ... I'm not the Szell zealot that some others are. I've heard performances from him that I...
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:40:05 -0500 ... Zowie! Now that I'd like to hear. Anti-Szell conducting Anti-Tchaikovsky. Now where to find that? Bernstein? Best, ...
... describe ... By which I mean, one can draw some interesting but not necessarily conclusive parallels between it and Mahler's later symphonic development. ...
... really are ... has been ... kind of ... I believe Klemperer called it a 'Schwindel' when Suvi Raj Grubb proposed to cut and paste between two different...
Thus spake Tom Dent (tdent@...): ... I beg to differ. Firstly you are not comparing apples with apples: Furt's non-studio recordings were never authorised...