Mahler 9 Centenary

[Petrushka]

Anniversary watchers will be keen to know that this Tuesday, June 26, sees the centenary of the first performance of Mahler's Symphony No 9. That performance was given in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter and on Tuesday I will be playing their 1938 recording. In the circumstances I could play no other despite the sonic limitations of the recording. However, the Dutton remastering is very good and it is that one that will be heard on the night. Many of those players in that recording will surely have played at the premiere.

Astonishing that I will have completed my Mahler centenary project begun with the First Symphony way back on November 20 1989 and which has seen each one faithfully celebrated on the same day 100 years on.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[jayne lee wilson]

Anniversary watchers will be keen to know that this Tuesday, June 26, sees the centenary of the first performance of Mahler's Symphony No 9. That performance was given in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter and on Tuesday I will be playing their 1938 recording. In the circumstances I could play no other despite the sonic limitations of the recording. However, the Dutton remastering is very good and it is that one that will be heard on the night. Many of those players in that recording will surely have played at the premiere.

Astonishing that I will have completed my Mahler centenary project begun with the First Symphony way back on November 20 1989 and which has seen each one faithfully celebrated on the same day 100 years on.

That's marvellous, Petrushka - a model of passion, devotion, and constancy.

Are you going to do anything about No.10?

Maybe one could do something similar with Haydn Symphonies, but on a monthly basis...

[Flosshilde]

Surprisingly that would only take about ten years longer than Petrushka's Mahler - what? marathon? devotion & commitment certainly

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Surely, Haydn on a monthly basis would take only 2 years. Or have I missed something?

[Roehre]

Mahler 10 (Adagio only, that is) is due in 2024 iirc.

Bach cantatas can be done easily according to their correct ecclesiastical dates in a year, especially in a year with an early Easter.

[BBMmk2]

Have to decide which version oi will put on then!!

[Flosshilde]

Jayne was talking of playing them on the aniversary of the year of their first performance (I understood), which spans 1759 - 1795, which is 36 years; Petrushka's homage will take 25 years.

[jayne lee wilson]

Mahler 10 (Adagio only, that is) is due in 2024 iirc.

Bach cantatas can be done easily according to their correct ecclesiastical dates in a year, especially in a year with an early Easter.

But if you wish to commemorate the 1964 premiere of the Cooke performing version you'll need cryogenics, or to leave a note in your will for a successor or executor to honour...

Is it even possible to discover the dates of all Haydn's symphony premieres? Or have you already done this, EA, to arrive at your two-year result?

[Flosshilde]

Wikipedia has a list, with the year of their first performance, which is how I arrived at my 36 years

[Petrushka]

I'm afraid that I'm unlikely to be around for the Mahler 10 centenary in 2064 (I'll be 110) but hope to hear the piece in the great concert hall in the sky.

I did actually start out with the idea of celebrating each premiere from the outset in 1989 not knowing how my world would be by 2012 It's certainly taken some strange twists and turns along the journey!

No-one, surely, can have devoted so much of their life to Mahler than Henry-Louis de la Grange whose first Mahler volume came out in 1973 (in English at any rate) and the revised volume of that book has still to appear. All Mahler fans are heavily in his debt.

[Tony Halstead]

Eine Alpensinfonie:

Surely, Haydn on a monthly basis would take only 2 years. Or have I missed something?

On a monthly basis, surely it would take 106 divided by 12 = 8.8333 years!
ON a WEEKLY basis, of course, only 2 years plus 2 weeks.

[Flosshilde]

I'm afraid that I'm unlikely to be around for the Mahler 10 centenary in 2064 (I'll be 110) but hope to hear the piece in the great concert hall in the sky.

Then you can ask Gustav which is the best completion

[Petrushka]

Then you can ask Gustav which is the best completion

[LeMartinPecheur]

Then you can ask Gustav which is the best completion

The answer's obvious: his own

Just think, a recording of the first performance (conducted of course by GM himself) should still be available up there on iplayer. I wonder what the date was: late 1911/ early 1912 presumably. But don't worry, the sound quality will still be beyond terrestrial-2012 'state of the art'