'Resurrection' Symphony: Gilbert Kaplan (1987)

[Pabmusic]

...I ... I ... ooh ... well ... I ...

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! Aarghhhhhhhh! Urghhhhhhh! [Projectile vomit...]

[clive heath]

It could have been the 2003 RFH performance (Lordgeous #11) as previewed here

http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2003/Oct03/kaplan_interview.htm

which we attended and enjoyed perhaps because new to the work rather than any felicity in the conducting.

[CallMePaul]

Isn't that with the LSO on Pickwick? I bought it when it came out - same response as yours; a competent read through, but unexceptional. Played it a couple of times - it gathered dust for a few years - then I sold it on. Haven't missed it.

Ditto

[Roehre]

Kaplan also edited The Mahler Album a fascinating book bringing together every known photograph of Mahler as well as much else besides. Indispensable for all Mahlerians.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Album...e+mahler+album

Plus some pictures of more recent generations too.
A really indispensable book indeed.

[Barbirollians]

Picked up a copy of the original Pickwick release for £1 . The performance does strike me as very correct and careful but not overly inspiring though the LSO chorus come across as the stars of the show late on .

The benefit of having a copy though is the interesting pair of booklets - 1 juxtaposing Mahler's original programme with the notes and 2 a collection of Mahler's letter concerning the symphony .