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The Adagietto of Mahler’s Fifth contains 103 bars, and in this brief span we find the following indications of the music’s emotional climate: espressivo (bar
This DG Concerts download of the New York Philharmonic’s May 25-27, 2006 concert series is a fairly good buy at nearly 100 minutes for $9.99
Horenstein leads a lackluster rendition of Rossini’s Semiramide Overture. Although his near-total inability to vary tempos in accordance with the composer’s directions hadn’t manifested itself
It’s a pity, really. Michael Tilson Thomas has the San Francisco Symphony playing with extreme responsiveness, and there are some wonderful moments in this Mahler
Conductors like Roger Norrington have careers today for two reasons. First, as decades of demented post-War opera productions demonstrate, the German artistic world places a
As a telling illustration of the classical music industry’s determination to render new recordings of major works completely valueless, I offer as Exhibit A the
This is a magnificent and tremendously intelligent performance. Daniel Barenboim has wisely waited to record Mahler, and has done so very selectively (his Fifth Symphony
Vaclav Neumann’s Mahler credentials were impeccable; indeed, had he not been trapped in communist-controlled Europe for much of his career, he might well have been
Releasing Bernard Haitink’s 1971 Mahler Eighth on SACD allows for appreciation of the original multi-channel recording, which does indeed enhance the spaciousness and clarity of
This recording was considered one of the outstanding Mahler Eighth’s of the LP era, at a time when it, Bernstein’s, Hatink’s, and Abravanel’s were all
