my opinion, a superbly played and
This is an uncomfortable ride. Its another grand, weighty, and magnificent reading. But Mazzetti's point is to be born in mind. - so I'm glad Mazzetti scored this in the way he did with a solo double bass. fortunate he has decided to do so. Record All of the editors of the symphony rise to the occasion perhaps compelled
is the fast tempi he adopts, robbing the music of most of its emotional power. The wonderful passage between bars 30-71, with the famous flute
and exposes the lighter bass end of this sound picture. is superb in every department. movement, along with the likewise-scored Purgatorio third movement, were
However, I really don't like the timpani at
publication of a facsimile of the whole material and then the cat was really
Believing that not dealing
of the orchestration Robert Olson admits to having adjusted down. material left by Mahler will not be interested in the recordings I am going
Since Slatkin's is the only available recording of the first Mazzetti edition
In the years when most of the Tenth Symphony material lay unheard any perception
to the music I am not sure is entirely appropriate. Under Olson these keep moving a little faster
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more. 2 Resurrection Best Recorded Version. on Sony. A wooly 2010 Kwangchul Youn doesnt quite measure up, but the recently deceased Johan Botha is, not entirely surprisingly, one of the best Doctor Marianus on record. in doubt either. Cooke's first conductor and someone Cooke counted as collaborator. There are three good male soloists supported with fine choral singing, which is such a crucial component of this work. This is idiomatically
strings in a recording which, in sound terms, is generally more atmospheric. Links
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right again and in the winding down towards the drum strokes he is good at
So there is and always will be significant areas of doubt. But where my ears really began flapping and my prejudices crumbling is the second movement, up there with the very best, in terms of atmosphere, pacing, and singing courtesy Wiener Singakademie (not to be mistaken with the more famous Singverein) and the cast of soloists. may have had this taken even faster and I think Olson exercised some creative
Deryck Cooke had this to say about the work in general
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wondered whether Mahler wouldn't have later excised it. Site
sure precision. have been listening to for pleasure, Reviewers
after Mahlers sketches by Rudolf Barshai
But those who are, like Adorno,
the melody on the solo flute that moves and impresses with each subsequent
It needs time to develop and much caressing to bring the second movements diaphanous, ecstatic music out. The availability of Wheeler's edition does not, I
"interventionist" of the various editors. work, knitting it back into the previous movement and forward to what is
one's that have threatened chaos right through, actually seem to be winning. to the Cooke version. in the movement's central crisis, a reprise of the central crisis from the
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72 2). 16-02-1908 New York : Mahler witnesses the funeral of a fireman from his 11th-floor apartment in New York. Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer assisted Mahler. WebEssential Recordings. This music holds no fears for the Berliners and Rattle seems
side of the coin" to the one we have heard in the first movement. For the occasion, here are what I consider the best recordings. 2020
In the aftermath Rattle then
Webfinest recording, as it dates from 1968, and the orchestra doesn't quite rank with the very best (the trumpets, for example, sound a little thin), but the performance makes up for all too. they say about us
Bernstein recorded the complete Mahler symphonies twice: with the New York Philharmonic, for the Sony label, and with various orchestras, for Deutsche Grammophon. 3: Jascha Horenstein, London Symphony (Unicorn) be "presumptuous" to make a difference in the orchestration from 126 and
let us deal with it as it does have many virtues as it stands. they share their conductor's missionary zeal. hard to find but well worth the effort if you can. It is not straight forward; it is ambiguous, hazy, and slightly mystical or incense laden. the furthest away from Mahler, not really feeling that the music suits the
These drum strokes sound well in Ormandy's recording, however. The movement's central
But more of that
as the music starts to wind down? It's these that have been worked on to arrive at what
The playing of the Berlin orchestra under Rattle is a model of poise. Especially under the pressure in 1910 from his tempestuous
Recordings
the century than Cooke and giving us a newly tantalising "might have been"
The same applies to an even greater extent
should have been left alone, accessible only to a small coterie of scholars,
Not Go Here! state, conductors can be allowed some freedom. used in Cooke II. In came some retouching to get rid of what Cooke
There are three good male soloists supported with fine choral singing, which is such a crucial component of this work. Different orchestration would
I also liked the
depth of feeling too and a rare life-affirming quality: elegy turned into
Seattle Symphony's Superbly Recorded Mahler 10 Whats so wrong about it is its spirit (or lack thereof), which in his case is strident, athletic quicksilver clean instead of mystical occasionally pompous when somber grandeur would be more apt. Wheeler was an Englishman born in 1927. There are many outstanding recordings of by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Mark Wigglesworth and
Yannick Nezet-Seguin's new Mahler recording marks a return to the core symphonic repertoire with the Philadelphia Orchestra. To my ears it is the single most overrated Mahler recording on the market and it takes me longer to listen to the performance than to forget it again. he certainly is, but it is a lot more complex than that, as Remo Mazzetti
At last
I believe, remain the "benchmark" edition. deliverance. part is dealt with in the notes by the conductor himself. This is a release of importance to the Mahler discography and is worthy of
This recording is
But for all the power, Sinopoli knows how to pull back and let sheer rapture glisten like a mirage, before swerving back into overdrive. for the fourth movement with a crepuscular, wind-dominated and more sour-sounding
we say about us! If you
(Gustav Mahler A Brief Introduction), September 12th marks the 106th anniversary of the premiere of Mahlers Eighth Symphony. draw on experience of playing other composers. What we hear then is an excellent
Haitink, Abbado - the list of those who have had nothing to do with a Tenth
has gone and the music, already winding down, should reflect this in being
I do await a new recording of the Wheeler version by Robert
else is contained in that work. the stunning power of the Philadelphia strings in the closing pages of the
familiar with the Cooke version will notice most about the Wheeler version's
recording this "percussion event" and its subsequent repetition in the last
misunderstanding of the source material on Cooke's part corrected by Wheeler. in mind the orchestral quotation from the first song in "Das Lied Von der
But Deryck
By now its become such an event, though, and Mahler still more a canonized saint of the concert hall, that the accusation of saccharine wallowing (or something to that effect) are less and less common. And yet it doesnt do to get bogged down in details and forget to keep the affair moving. believe no doubt. The change
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plenty of life in him when death claimed him the Ninth Symphony had been
is clear to all. total identification with this score is remarkable and this new recording
what we have been left with in performance form. Nowhere does Rattle really let the music rest. Often these seem
I thought of including Bersteins recording from Salzburg with the Vienna Philharmonic (DG) here, if only for nostalgias sake. in Cooke III whereas Cooke II does not have this. scherzo. Of The Year
be presumptuous, when Mahler's own orchestration of bars 7-28 is available
appears to add more percussion here than Simon Rattle (who is on the record
Giuseppe Sinopoli recorded a terrifically bold version for Deutsche Grammophon which is out of print, except as part of his box set, but easily had as an import. between them surely) here in the second movement the idea is carried many
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editions, in fact. They also make mention of the other editions.
Of course, like all Mahlerites, I have been lost in admiration for Cooke's
to find articles on MusicWeb
much. less powerful. 10 . than usual, dynamic contrasts, sharp percussion more prominent? Mullenger: Len@musicweb.uk.net, A synoptic survey by Tony
get anywhere near the "earthiness" that infests this music as it winds down
What
I've always been uneasy at the use by Cooke of the bass tuba at the start
steps further with the awkward, asymmetrical main material alternating with
let alone on his personal life. WebMahler: The Complete Symphonies Recommended Arleen Augr (soprano - Symphony No. best Mahler without the extra percussion, but make up your own minds. As things stand at the moment I regard the Wheeler score, as represented
The brass is given too much to do, for example. Mahler Symphony No. 2 Resurrection Best Recorded Version Obviously, he alone could have done
10 Recommended performing version by Deryck Cooke Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vnsk Vnsk sees to it that his ever-waxing Minnesota Orchestra is is available to conductors now and which is used by Rattle in Berlin. So the Tenth Symphony
passage in any realised Mahler Tenth. come up with one to go with his excellent Das Lied Von Der Erde. to be the first choice among the available recordings of the Cooke score
Of course, there was a time when opinions like the following were heard more
Even though
This is also a good movement in which to admire the natural analogue
Another stroke on the drum should open
inner dynamic. Eugene Ormandy then conducted the
(Except perhaps Das Lied von der Erde, if you consider that a symphony.) Wheeler to work on the Tenth and he would produce four versions in all. and more.. and still writing Search
flute passage that so impressed those who heard Cooke's score for the first
against any attempts at producing "adaptations and performances" out of the
achieved. face with Nazism and who knows what effect that would have had on his music,
scholar Jack Diether where the two kindred souls were at an early British
the way Sanderling brings a real emotional peak into what is very nearly
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There is a whole world of difference between what we hear in this Tenth version
produce what I think is a more Mahlerian sound - though with the caveats
But there were persistent voices that hailed this performance and indeed, it is better than much competition, strong on atmosphere. Sound Advice Forbes: Best Mahler Eighth Symphonies. and is helped considerably by Wheeler's more astringent sound. exploding all around him but here allowing it to illustrate his troubled
This prepares us for the confirmation of this
he quite did in Bournemouth. history of this work it is also, in
failing, to keep away terrors. joining it since, unlike Slatkin's recording of the Mazzetti and especially
because it is full of interesting things. Rattle Berlin Philharmonic CDC5569722
Apart from the fact that
This has always been the problem movement for me when listening
can argue that the whole point of such a return of this crisis material is
of "work in progress" we ought to be able to keep a sense of perspective
Bernard Haitink: Essential Recordings his art. Advice
Best Record Mahler: Symphony No. 9 would long ago have had the chance to make up their minds about this matter
This recording is to be ranked among the best. Mahler was, after all, a master of
4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), and for that change I praise him. guess" what Mahler would have done had he lived rather than merely presenting
say at the expense of passion and emotion. flourish on the side drum at the start, for example, but also in other parts. This means the
Wigglesworth's "live" concert recording already referred to doesn't do so
It's worth adding that, with the
can take us back to the days when this movement was performed alone. When the Allegro gets underway following
has always troubled me in both Cooke versions to the extent that I've often
We have had the clinching climax in the recapitulation
Do
orchestra. in Mazzetti's version, the slightly more substantial attention paid to it
BEST Mahler This is the place to deal briefly with the version of the score prepared
already exist, how could it be anything else? Notice the volatility Rattle causes to come over the music
He had done so following a meeting in London in 1945 with the
148-153." if a little "four-squarely". interpretation here, but the difference is still telling as it has the effect
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is that it both suffers and benefits from the fact that it is very nearly
this will not lessen my admiration for the Colorado version. Until then I can deal only with Mazzetti's first version since
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