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Originally posted by Nachtigall View PostBaffling review of the Testament Gielen by Peter Quantrill in the September Gramophone. If anybody can explain to me what he's saying and whether he's actually recommending it I should be grateful. But perhaps it's not worth bothering."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI looked for that issue on the way home yesterday, didn't find it in the usual places. Did it come out this week? I'll read with suitable puzzlement...
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostI suddenly noticed that I was clutching a copy of Klemperer's Act 1 of Die Walkure with Helga Dernesch. No doubt the person in Germany for whom it was intended now has my Mahler 7th. Grrr!
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Originally posted by Nachtigall View PostBaffling review of the Testament Gielen by Peter Quantrill in the September Gramophone. If anybody can explain to me what he's saying and whether he's actually recommending it I should be grateful. But perhaps it's not worth bothering.
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Originally posted by Nachtigall View PostCame in the post today, Caliban, so I guess it won't be on general sale until the end of this week or beginning of next. I think Seckerson or David Gutman might have given a more detailed and informative response (though I know some don't care for the former).
I liked the reference about the final movement having Austrian "extreme indifference". PQ seemed to me to be very impressed with Gielen's recording.
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Originally posted by PJPJ View PostI liked the reference about the final movement having Austrian "extreme indifference". PQ seemed to me to be very impressed with Gielen's recording.
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Exonian
Abbado with the CSO on DG was the first recording that persuaded me that this perhaps most forlorn and unloved of Mahler's symphonic children. Then I got hold of the Kubelik box set on DG with the Bavarian RSO and think it is as good as any. Both these are fantastic versions. Kubelik also had a live recording with the NYPO (which is on that orchestra's Mahler box set) from 1981 which is apparently superb but not without its detractors. He also recorded again live and again with the Bavarian RSO in 1976 which again I've never heard.
I do have the Horenstein from 1969 on an old Intaglio cd and some of it is thrilling while other parts seem to lag a bit (those timing issues again?).
I would also perhaps submit a couple more I do like and listen to repeatedly : Kirill Kondrashin and the Concertgebouw in a live recording from 1979 which is on the Tahra cd label. The finale is amazing, Kondrashin seems to get this rollercoaster ride of a movement just right - exhilarating. The other is from Gary Bertini with the Cologne RSO on EMI from 1991. Another underrated Mahlerian who eschewed the grand gestures and played the music as something to be communicated and enjoyed. Some may find the tempi a touch smooth, but Bertini brings out those great long singing melodic lines as well as anyone and his orchestra seems to me to be of a very high quality ; conductor and band display more music less ego than other 'names'.
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Originally posted by Exonian View PostAbbado with the CSO on DG was the first recording that persuaded me that this perhaps most forlorn and unloved of Mahler's symphonic children. Then I got hold of the Kubelik box set on DG with the Bavarian RSO and think it is as good as any. Both these are fantastic versions. Kubelik also had a live recording with the NYPO (which is on that orchestra's Mahler box set) from 1981 which is apparently superb but not without its detractors. He also recorded again live and again with the Bavarian RSO in 1976 which again I've never heard.
I do have the Horenstein from 1969 on an old Intaglio cd and some of it is thrilling while other parts seem to lag a bit (those timing issues again?).
I would also perhaps submit a couple more I do like and listen to repeatedly : Kirill Kondrashin and the Concertgebouw in a live recording from 1979 which is on the Tahra cd label. The finale is amazing, Kondrashin seems to get this rollercoaster ride of a movement just right - exhilarating. The other is from Gary Bertini with the Cologne RSO on EMI from 1991. Another underrated Mahlerian who eschewed the grand gestures and played the music as something to be communicated and enjoyed. Some may find the tempi a touch smooth, but Bertini brings out those great long singing melodic lines as well as anyone and his orchestra seems to me to be of a very high quality ; conductor and band display more music less ego than other 'names'.
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I found Quantrill's review rather impenetrable and far foo short . I picked up a copy of Gramophone at the station to read on the train journey and any recent improvement seems to have plateaued.Last edited by Barbirollians; 08-09-13, 20:06.
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