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Hard to believe, but it’s been more than three decades since the fabled Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra took Mahler’s Second Symphony into the studio, and a
Kirill Kondrashin, a legendary interpreter of Russian music, shows himself here to be an accomplished Mahlerian with this excellent performance of the First Symphony. From
The Mahler is a sad case. Kindertotenlieder, here transposed up a minor third (presumably to accommodate the soprano range) audibly taxes Kirsten Flagstad’s apparently waning
This live Mahler Sixth sheds less light on Kubelik’s way with the music than previous releases from Audite, if only because its 1968 date places
Recorded live in Munich on June 10, 1983, this has got to be one of the most gorgeously engineered Mahler Sixths on the market. The
Deutsche Grammophon seems to have a monopoly on great Mahler Firsts, with Bernstein, Kubelik, and Boulez all prime recommendations. This 1977 underrated but otherwise superb
No need to linger here. Several versions of Mitropoulos’ impulsive way with Mahler’s First survive: his hysterically neurotic, poorly played, badly recorded Minneapolis studio recording
This collection exactly duplicates the 1905 concert in which these works were premiered. The “Lieder-Abend” introduced a new musical format: the orchestral song. In recreating
Michael Gielen’s Mahler Sixth is a grim affair indeed. Setting off with a relentlessly heavy tread, Gielen leads a first movement that is the very
Ben Zander really knows his Mahler, perhaps a bit too well in this case. His view of the Fourth Symphony reveals a determination to delve
