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Slammin’! was the way a friend of mine described this performance of Mahler’s First Symphony, and that about sums it up. At a somewhat deeper
This performance, originally released in 1993 on the Intercord label, stands as the highpoint in Michael Gielen’s excellent and still ongoing Mahler cycle. Gielen captures
Michael Gielen’s Mahler on the Hänssler label is shaping up to be one of the more trenchant cycles available in today’s overcrowded market. As with
Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony has been quite fortunate on disc in recent years with excellent recordings by Dohnányi, Wand, Eschenbach, and Chailly, as well as classic
This Bruckner Eighth first appeared on Intercord about a decade ago, and it’s a very good performance, one that no one who knows and loves
This is the same Mahler Fourth that first appeared on Intercord about a decade ago (it dates from 1988), and it’s a very good one.
Jacob’s Ladder, Schoenberg’s incomplete, quasi-oratorio, dramatizes the Biblical tale in the composer’s most astringent, dyspeptic style. Schoenberg’s solo writing is intense and declamatory (especially that
Michael Gielen favors strictly proportional tempos in the first movement of Schubert’s “Great” C major symphony, with the result that the introductory Andante sounds faster
If you like Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony served up in bold, primary colors, with textures as brash and hard-hitting as the zaniest Marx Brothers dialogue (the
More intellectual twaddle from the German avant-garde, though with a mild (very mild) sense of humor. Helmut Lachenmann uses all the extended techniques–best used as
