Your First Mahler record

[visualnickmos]

Mahler 4th CfP, LPO/Horenstein soloist; Margaret Price (if memory serves me correctly, without getting up and checking!)

[DublinJimbo]

My first Mahler recording was the original LP of Mahler 4 with Judith Raskin, the Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell (1965 or '66, I'd guess). It got played to death and must have driven my long-suffering parents nuts. But what music! And what a performance! If time didn't permit listening to the entire work, I'd drop the needle at the beginning of the slow movement and float away into another world, knowing that amazing climax was coming but still getting a shiver as it erupted.

[Zucchini]

I'm afraid that I've never owned a Mahler recording and wouldn''t dream of attending a live performance. There are a lot of us about! I'm not missing out - I can find better things to do with my money and time

[gurnemanz]

Mahler 4th CfP, LPO/Horenstein soloist; Margaret Price (if memory serves me correctly, without getting up and checking!)

Still got the LP. Also Ace of Clubs Lisa della Casa, Vier Letzte Lieder + Ferrier Rückert Lieder.

[cloughie]

I'm afraid that I've never owned a Mahler recording and wouldn''t dream of attending a live performance. There are a lot of us about! I'm not missing out - I can find better things to do with my money and time

Zucch a pity, but your loss I guess!

[gurnemanz]

I'm afraid that I've never owned a Mahler recording and wouldn''t dream of attending a live performance. There are a lot of us about! I'm not missing out - I can find better things to do with my money and time

A good friend of mine is an obsessive rock music fan and Mahler is the only classical music he does listen to. I suppose this is actually the same phenomenon as with you, but the other side of the coin.

[Barbirollians]

I have heard far too little Mahler in concert - something I really should correct .

[kea]

I'm afraid that I've never owned a Mahler recording and wouldn''t dream of attending a live performance. There are a lot of us about! I'm not missing out - I can find better things to do with my money and time

Basically agree with this! Except I just acquired my first & second Mahler recordings, Symphonies 7 & 6, being the two works I seem to have been the least neutral about in past listenings. Still not sure the music will ever do anything for me, but at least I've got some of it now in case I ever feel the compulsion...

Oh and I'm looking into getting some of the orchestral songs, Christian Gerhaher has the least offensive/operatic voice of most of the singers I can find on Qobuz so probably will be him.