Mahler 8: Rattle

[Dave2002]

I heard the last half hour of Mahler 8 conducted by Rattle yesterday. It sounded pretty good to me.
Not sure how it compares with his recordings. What do others think? Did anyone else like the performance broadcast yesterday?

[silvestrione]

Only just seen this. Why no replies? I thought the performance was magnificent, a real sense of occasion as you come to expect with Rattle. The orchestra and choruses responded magnificently. The audible detail in the quiet passages, e.g. just before the end, so evocative; a huge affirmation, with mystical depths...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've just finished listening to it: an overwhelming experience with the orchestra on top form, superb soloists, and Rattle at his very best. I have reservations about his approach to some areas of the repertoire, but there's nobody living (and not many dead!) who can match him in Mahler: the Seventh a couple of weeks ago was also terrific.

silvestrione is spot on: "a real sense of occasion" (soppy devil that I am, there were tears of joys chez Ferney at the end) and I was touched by Rattle's tribute to Kurt Sanderling at the beginning of the programme.

If this performance ever gets a CD release, it will sweep the board!

Best Wishes.

[salymap]

Mahler 1 tonight with Rattle on BBC4. 7.30 I've only just spotted this. Still one of my favourites.

[amateur51]

Mahler 1 tonight with Rattle on BBC4. 7.30 I've only just spotted this. Still one of my favourites.

Well spotted, salymap - thanks for the alert!

[Keraulophone]

Mahler 1 tonight with Rattle on BBC4. 7.30 I've only just spotted this. Still one of my favourites.

It was indeed a very fine performance, with typically committed playing from every department. Most enthralling were those quiet but intense string passages, much improved when shutting one's eyes so as to avoid Rattle's madly gaping mouth, childlike grinning and stabbing stick.

[Tony Halstead]

"shutting one's eyes so as to avoid Rattle's madly gaping mouth, childlike grinning and stabbing stick."

[LeMartinPecheur]

Mrs LMP and I greatly enjoyed this concert. I don't care how he looks (gurns) if he delivers performances like these.

[johnb]

As I couldn't listen to the Mahler 8 at the time of the broadcast I tried to capture the HD version but the stream suffered multiple glitches (as I found out when I tried to listen).

Afterwards I intended to listen to iPlayer Listen Again but forgot about it until I saw this thread - and then it was too late!

[teamsaint]

I was just revisiting various threads on Mahler 8, and noting the enthusiasm for this performance, I see that it made it to the BPO Digital Concert Hall.
Might be one to catch if a relative is asking what you want for Xmas, of if they run a free Black Friday trial.......

[Stanfordian]

I was just revisiting various threads on Mahler 8, and noting the enthusiasm for this performance, I see that it made it to the BPO Digital Concert Hall.
Might be one to catch if a relative is asking what you want for Xmas, of if they run a free Black Friday trial.......

I was in the Berlin audience for the Rattle/Philharmonie concert of Mahler Eight that was being streamed. I loved Rattle's choice of Lotti's 'Crucifixus' and the Tallis 'Spem in alium' such haunting unaccompanied choral works providing a stark contrast to the massive Eighth that was to follow. I always sit facing the orchestra therefore excused from the conductor's facial expressions.

[BBMmk2]

I was in the Berlin audience for the Rattle/Philharmonie concert of Mahler Eight that was being streamed. I loved Rattle's choice of Lotti's 'Crucifixus' and the Tallis 'Spem in alium' such haunting unaccompanied choral works providing a stark contrast to the massive Eighth that was to follow. I always sit facing the orchestra therefore excused from the conductor's facial expressions.

Must admit that is rather off putting, to say the least but he does enjoy is music making. You can certainly see that

[silvestrione]

I've just listened to this again. Still overwhelming (yes, there were tears at the end!).

What I can't quite work out is, after a performance of something like this, why does the world appear unchanged?