Mahler 7 Simon Bolivar SO/Dudamel

[Barbirollians]

DG released a new recording of the 8th with Dudamel last year, but only available for streaming or download. It was very well reviewed by Gramophone.

How bizarre not to release that on CD unless they think his market is all downloaders ?

[LHC]

How bizarre not to release that on CD unless they think his market is all downloaders ?

DG do seem to be pushing downloads and streaming as their main activity at the moment. Perhaps they see him as appealing to a younger, hipper audience. His recording of Adams’ Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with Yuja Wang was also not released at all on CD. Initially streaming and download only, and then a few months later, it was released on vinyl, but nothing else.

[Alison]

The Dude’s profile seems to be a bit lower these days.

Did you ever acquire the Seventh, Pet??

[cloughie]

The Dude’s profile seems to be a bit lower these days.

He’s certainly not the first conductor to come to mind as a Mahlerian - his No2 at the Proms a few years back I really enjoyed but I’m not sure it was universally praised.

Or is Mahler’s profile a bit lower these days - there are maybe less performances, less new recordings of his works - is the Mahler market saturated - everything been said for now - maybe things will change rapidly sometime but not now!

[Barbirollians]

He’s certainly not the first conductor to come to mind as a Mahlerian - his No2 at the Proms a few years back I really enjoyed but I’m not sure it was universally praised.

Or is Mahler’s profile a bit lower these days - there are maybe less performances, less new recordings of his works - is the Mahler market saturated - everything been said for now - maybe things will change rapidly sometime but not now!

That’s a fair point . Jurowski has been knocking out the odd live recording and there were the Fischers but no obvious big new cycles of his symphonies being announced.

[jayne lee wilson]

https://www.gewandhausorchester.de/en/mahler-festival/

[silvestrione]

And Igor Levitt playing the adagio from Mahler 10 in Ronald Stevenson's transcription....now that I would like to hear.

[Barbirollians]

The Dude’s profile seems to be a bit lower these days.

Did you ever acquire the Seventh, Pet??

I enjoyed the Seventh rather more than the Fifth. Nachtmusik movements were particularly fine.

[Nick Armstrong]

The Dude’s profile seems to be a bit lower these days.

Indeed, over here. Not in LA though, where he seems to have sunk his roots lately. His musical direction of the recent Spielberg West Side Story has boosted his profile, if anything

[Petrushka]

Did you ever acquire the Seventh, Pet??

Sorry, Alison, only just seen your query. I never did get this 7th and, in fact, I listen to very little Mahler these days. He'll be back, I'm sure, but the days when I used to listen to a couple of Mahler symphonies a day are long gone.

[Alison]

Sorry, Alison, only just seen your query. I never did get this 7th and, in fact, I listen to very little Mahler these days. He'll be back, I'm sure, but the days when I used to listen to a couple of Mahler symphonies a day are long gone.

I’m pretty much with you on this Pet. Wasn’t it FerretFancy who rather berated the Mahler boom on these pages?

Last Mahler CD purchased must have been the Hrusa Fourth (excellent). But I haven’t bothered with all the Adam Fischers and not even the Jurowski Eighth (or even the Dudamel Seventh). I’m quite looking forward to revisiting the Solti London recordings from the recent and so far very much enjoyed box. Other than that I’m giving him a rest.

[Alison]

Indeed, over here. Not in LA though, where he seems to have sunk his roots lately. His musical direction of the recent Spielberg West Side Story has boosted his profile, if anything

Thanks for the insight Nicks. So has the Venezuela era come to an end?

[Barbirollians]

I’m pretty much with you on this Pet. Wasn’t it FerretFancy who rather berated the Mahler boom on these pages?

Last Mahler CD purchased must have been the Hrusa Fourth (excellent). But I haven’t bothered with all the Adam Fischers and not even the Jurowski Eighth (or even the Dudamel Seventh). I’m quite looking forward to revisiting the Solti London recordings from the recent and so far very much enjoyed box. Other than that I’m giving him a rest.

I miss Ferretfancy.

[Petrushka]

But I haven’t bothered with all the Adam Fischers and not even the Jurowski Eighth (or even the Dudamel Seventh). I’m quite looking forward to revisiting the Solti London recordings from the recent and so far very much enjoyed box. Other than that I’m giving him a rest.

Ditto to all of this. I've been playing the Solti box this past week but left the Mahler discs as I'd got them already in previous CD incarnations.

I've had a bit of an obsession with Mozart lately and have finally got going on chamber music, especially the Schubert Octet D803 which I can't stop playing. Wonder if it's age or the pandemic effect?