BaL 19.12.20 - Mahler Symphony no. 1

[Goon525]

Total of nine versions, out of over 250. Bit difficult to know what they could sensibly do. But some of the chosen few feel a bit perverse.

[Goon525]

Your favourite version had about a 3.5% chance of being included!

[Barbirollians]

Total of nine versions, out of over 250. Bit difficult to know what they could sensibly do. But some of the chosen few feel a bit perverse.

Alsop and Jansons for crying out loud both bland .

[Barbirollians]

Phew at least Bruno Walter is in the top nine but where is Lenny ?

[Wolfram]

Phew at least Bruno Walter is in the top nine but where is Lenny ?

She can't ignore him - love him or loath him he's too central to Mahler interpretation to overlook. Ah! Here he is.

[Wolfram]

I agree with her about Abbado. Very much liked the Ivan Fischer excerpt she played - and the wonderful Kubelik of course.

[Barbirollians]

Lenny with NYPO is in - I have rather more of a soft spot for the DG.

[Barbirollians]

I agree with her about Abbado. Very much liked the Ivan Fischer excerpt she played - and the wonderful Kubelik of course.

I think the rather expressionist Chicago SO recording shows Abbado in a better light in this symphony.

[Goon525]

Fischer running favourite at the moment?

[Wolfram]

Lenny with NYPO is in - I have rather more of a soft spot for the DG.

[Bryn]

I wish Moore had got her history right. The Budapest performance she cites as the first was of a different work which Mahler developed into the First Symphony. The First Symphony has its premiere in Berlin in 1896. Indeed, the work performed in Budapest in 1889 is not dealt with in this BaL, except in a passing reference.

[Barbirollians]

Bruno Walter holding up strongly - no surprise to me . It is the recording I got to know first and I love it to bits .

[Ein Heldenleben]

Love to know how Jansons and Bernstein get the orchestra to stay together in those elongated phrases and indeed individual notes in the Klezmer section just by baton waving. I don’t find the Kubelik that brash here unlike the reviewer. Klezmer should sound crude shouldn’t it ?

[Barbirollians]

Love to know how Jansons and Bernstein get the orchestra to stay together in those elongated phrases and indeed individual notes in the Klezmer section just by baton waving. I don’t find the Kubelik that brash here unlike the reviewer. Klezmer should sound crude shouldn’t it ?

Me too I liked it - finding Jansons just too slick .

[Goon525]

Well I was wrong - it’s Bruno Walter.