New Mahler releases

[Alison]

Quite a few new discs demanding our attention just now. I have taken delivery of the Rattle Resurrection today and might give a spin later.

I see there's a Mahler slot on CD review tomorrow; I wish they wouldn't always trot out Mr Seckerson for this wonderful composer.

[Bryn]

I have taken delivery of the Rattle Resurrection today and might give a spin later.

My copy arrived a couple of days ago, but with the Bilson and his students' Beethoven Sonatas box, Momo Kodama's Catalogue d'oiseaux, etc, arriving at the same time, or since, I have not got round to it yet. Not in the mood for it tonight. Maybe during the day tomorrow.

[Petrushka]

I'm off to London a week on Monday to attend three of the the BPO/Rattle concerts so if HMV is still standing I am hoping to pick up the Rattle Resurrection then. I see that there is also another Resurrection from the Boston SO and William Steinberg just out. Does anyone have any comment on this one? Also noted the release of Tennstedt's Mahler 8 which looks to be erroneously dated as January 21 1991 according to HMV.com. Can anyone who has it confirm the date on the reverse? I already have the DVD but if it is, as I believe, the Jan 27 1991 performance I shall get the CD as that was the performance I (and Alison, too, I think) attended.

[mathias broucek]

The new Rattle is only £7.99 on Amazon

[Alison]

The new Rattle is only £7.99 on Amazon

Quite. I wasnt certain to purchase until I saw that.
Jansons considerably more expensive from that provider.

[makropulos]

If you mean the ICA release of Steinberg conducting Mahler 2, it's in fact with the Cologne Radio SO. I listened to it yesterday and was very plesantly surprised - and deeply impressed: it's a rather thrilling performance, and the 1965 stereo broadcast sound is excellent.

Is there a Boston performance with him as well? If so, I'd be interested to hear that too :)

[Alison]

Anyone seen the Abbado Mahler 9 ?

David Nice is calling that the best ever performance of anything -

and I normally agree with him.

[Bryn]

Anyone seen the Abbado Mahler 9 ?

David Nice is calling that the best ever performance of anything -

and I normally agree with him.

If one can take the unidiomatic string vibrato, it's a very fine performance indeed. I intend to spin it again before even taking the film wrap of the Rattle Resurrection CDs.

[Alison]

The Abbado 12.99 at Amazon so ordered that too.

I feel in a Mahler 9 mood now. Maybe another spin of Zinman or the LSO/Haitink Prom.

[Bryn]

I paid £17.99 for the Blu-ray from hmv.com.

[Petrushka]

If you mean the ICA release of Steinberg conducting Mahler 2, it's in fact with the Cologne Radio SO. I listened to it yesterday and was very plesantly surprised - and deeply impressed: it's a rather thrilling performance, and the 1965 stereo broadcast sound is excellent.

Is there a Boston performance with him as well? If so, I'd be interested to hear that too :)

Apologies, Makropulos, that's the one. I'm sure I read Boston somewhere but obviously not. I seem intent on having every Mahler 2 ever recorded and with 50 versions so far on my heaving shelves it looks like I could make it. Haven't got the 'new' Klemperer on Testament, the 1935 Ormandy, Eschenbach and perhaps one or two others but getting there. Is there a complete listing on the web anywhere?

Edit: A quick search on Google gave me this:http://gustavmahler.net.free.fr/us.html

Further edit: Looks like I've got a long way to go!

[Mandryka]

A hard to please and normally rather unemotional friend of mine apparently wept buckets over the final movement of the new Rattle Resurrection this week. I'm not normally a Rattle fan, but this tempts me to check this out....

[Thomas Roth]

Is it music or a therapy session?

[Chris Newman]

I was very much impressed by most of the new Rattle Resurrection. On the debit side I usually much adore Mrs Rattle's singing but felt that neither she nor Kate Royal yet ready for the little bits they contribute. The orchestra and chorus sing their hearts out but the soloists are a disappointment.

[Alison]

Oh dash it, wish I had listened to my Sir Simon CD before tuning in
this morning.

I look forward to hearing most of these recent discs in their entirety.

Fairly phenomenal playing from the BPO from the extracts played yet I
found the Concertgebouw had a more endearing Mahlerian sound.

I thought Ed was quite balanced in his appraisals today; maybe
he is not as institutionally pro-Rattle as I had imagined.

Unlike ES I still don't feel Bernstein's Mahler tells anything like the whole
story even if I am pleased to have the DG DVD set in my collection.