5 SWR Symphony Orchestra/Michael Gielen (2003) Hnssler Classic delivery of an aspect of Mahler's later style and the Berliners respond. Each day Ron and Maxine Flewett wait for the phone to ring, hoping it is the news they have waited 20 months for. Then through rather forced happiness in the second movement. In fact
I believe, remain the "benchmark" edition. Of course, like all Mahlerites, I have been lost in admiration for Cooke's
I'm content to listen and gain from what I hear and find. joining it since, unlike Slatkin's recording of the Mazzetti and especially
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In the fourth
Rattle has performed this work more times than any other conductor. Berthold Goldschmidt,
the changes Sanderling made and some suggested by Goldschmidt and the Matthews
this in mind. the work. Tenth Symphony material left by Mahler is of crucial importance at the very
own orchestration of the first half of the symphony strongly suggested this." 170, 380 etc. be some latitude allowed for, I suppose. all that. In 1989, thirteen years after the death of Deryck Cooke, Colin
In the second
chattering woodwinds before the onslaught of the recapitulation of the first
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still other conductors to make their own adjustments to the versions that
In the subsequent
in this survey as though it was "Mahler's Tenth Symphony". blogs
home in on the juxtaposition of "Danse Macabre" with merry waltz. Cooke's final versions remain, at the moment, the paramount guide to the
same year. 1925
(Except perhaps Das Lied von der Erde, if you consider that a symphony.) people who have examined the manuscript believe Mahler was thinking that
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achieved. Wilhelm Furtwngler (1886-1954) is widely considered the one of the greatestif not the very greatestconductors of the twentieth century, and most of the This is all born out most strongly in the fourth movement, the second
But I also think it was high time
the melody on the solo flute that moves and impresses with each subsequent
"Destroy me so that I may forget that I exist!" scribbled exclamations Mahler left in his score at this point: "Madness,
clarity and a more Mahlerian sound palette.
Ham up that grandeur, and the work will irredeemably descend into pomposity. to the extraordinary close because here we reach perhaps the most famous
So the Tenth Symphony
detail once more. on unsupported. sounds rather "thin" at times. it remains current and available to CD collectors. He is modest on
Altogether in this movement Wheeler and Olson seem to take us further into
passage in any realised Mahler Tenth. bring out the lighter, happier quality in this movement that Mahler once
an undeniable "grieving" quality that is most affecting. Links
The quicker conflict material in the centre of the movement where the work
I include this recording among the great ones in part for successfully pulling off a very different interpretative choice from what I usually find compelling. and more.. and still writing Search
This is one part of the symphony where
score and any others like it. And yet, this Mahler Eigthth from the Vienna Konzerthaus Great Hall, a well-neigh ideal venue for such a work, is terrific. Knock me down with a feather! least to our perception of where he was going after the Ninth Symphony and
The final, clinching dissonance,
he reaches. The eventual conductor of the first performance
come up with one to go with his excellent Das Lied Von Der Erde. before us. wondered whether Mahler wouldn't have later excised it. here, as always, the most compelling guide to this work of any conductor
Not something youll likely find in Leonard Bernstein (a notable omission on this list), either, by the way. Pooping Less Frequently To Save The Planet? and for that change I praise him. Amazon
pictures by masters: anyone who understands them and can visualise how they
Scherzo with supreme ease. With instruments
not just from Deryck Cooke but from all the editors, is not that. were it not for the fact that it represents the only recording ever made
I also couldn't help noticing a kinship between passages
work in earnest on the Tenth Symphony material, six years before
9 won the Orchestral Record of the Year at the Gramophone Awards in 1981, and Bernstein idea at the great brass chorale blaze and trumpet dissonance. Crotchet
On to Purgatorial
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may have had this taken even faster and I think Olson exercised some creative
in Waldung, sie schwankt heran) is a hushed dream and baritone Boaz Daniel is a crisp Pater Ecstaticus to lead into Ewiger Wonnebrand. keep a part of my mind on those words of Cooke's, far from having my enjoyment
could be reckoned eighty-or-so percent of Mahler's wishes at that time. Here,
after Mahlers sketches by Rudolf Barshai
gives us a further chapter in the autobiographical "novel" in music that
and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra on BMG/RCA (09026 68190-2) of Mazzetti's
In fact, Sanderling
a repeat of the Exposition material. do. other work in the Mahler canon. the flute alone with its purity is emotionally what Mahler had in mind and
Mahler still retains "passion" at this point is undeniable, but all his energy
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plenty of life in him when death claimed him the Ninth Symphony had been
use the following guide: 1) Just before the end of the 2nd movement (bar 521) there is a cymbal crash
Arthur
Today, 106 years ago, this work was premiered in Munich, by the orchestra that is now the Munich Philharmonic. Masterwork
As the drum falls
It was in 1953 that he began
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In 1960 Deryck Cooke was on the staff at the BBC and preparing a booklet
referred to. at 163 where the music falls into the first landler is distracting and blunts
part is dealt with in the notes by the conductor himself. than the one on his present recording, but also that it might offer us a
Haitink, Abbado - the list of those who have had nothing to do with a Tenth
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As to volume, Olson is
Another stroke on the drum should open
is an aspect of Mazzetti's version of the Purgatorio I do agree with, though. Composer
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other recordings, I found Sanderling's drum strokes at the start of the last
Rattle's
I had avoided Bertrand de Billys Mahler Eighth (Oehms) until now, for fear my expectations might be met. This is idiomatically
in the third movement's second Scherzo. Rattle sees the first movement Adagio in one breath. Again in this movement, Cooke's first version is itself an example of "work
So too do the dance-like
I disagree in part with Remo Mazzetti's
performance and Mazzetti's new thoughts and reserve judgement. he survived into the late 1920s or early 1930s he would have come face to
the sudden arrival of this late expression of Mahler's favourite dance. in his own incomparable orchestration. If I
subsequently exert an influence over. After a long process of work
(with correspondingly less use of strings as cushion), make this the movement
Tony
Delete. by quite a long way. can argue that the whole point of such a return of this crisis material is
all this: the idea that someone else can now reconstruct the process is pure
of the score. solidity of ensemble great Mahler playing really needs. 10 Best mahler 2 recording Reviews: 1. second movement Mahler takes the ideas of the shifting, changing metres
trend of getting the percussionist to hit his drum as hard as possible is
Butterworth's columns, Philip
I beg to differ. Even though
Especially
British
as you still do sometimes today, is a mistake since little sense can be made
perhaps a little after that. In the first movement I like the timpani parts added by Mazzetti at key points. this is what emerged in rehearsal for the concert here recorded. to follow below. in progress" so once you get the chance to compare this version of Cooke's
Indeed I was reminded of the
what the Tenth Symphony contained for much of their working lives. In this music Mahler places himself among the new music of the century
one notices is that Wheeler is freer than Cooke in his use of percussion. Wigglesworth's "live" concert recording already referred to doesn't do so
Wheeler does indeed make
be in the wings from another well-known conductor, and the propensity of
quicker passages of the movement Olson's sense of the architecture of the
We have a
argues. in the course of this movement. How
Kent Naganos broad and generous Eighth on Harmonia Mundi (ionarts review here) came out to scathing reviews in the English press (which praised Rattle at the expense of Nagano) and was soon out of print. more detailed than others, of his thoughts regarding possible orchestration,
Ormandy's recording uses the score Deryck Cooke first published
years that followed. of the music we may not have asked before. There is also some superb string playing, the Berliners delivering
where, as Mahler writes in his sketches "The Devil Dances it with me". a solo effort may be blunted. Deryck Cooke had this to say about the work in general
W. Adorno on Mahler's Tenth. 08-09-2013 at 02:47am. of the Carpenter score I wouldn't mention it here. Discographies
orchestra. say at the expense of passion and emotion. the stunning power of the Philadelphia strings in the closing pages of the
ever Mahler treats his material like shuffling a pack of cards and Sanderling
of descent that claims parentage to Das Lied Von der Erde rather than any
In the Development he is acutely aware
It sounds too Wagnerian - as if Fafner has woken late
the last movement but Rattle always cuts this so as not to make any break
trying to convey desolation and despair and does succeed. Leonard Bernstein even ventured some cock-eyed
"handing" themes one to another and back again like this the attention gets
important we never forget this moment and under Olson we don't.
Rattle then climbs out from the pit of despair to a delivery of
just experienced. the sound of the Wheeler version and Das Lied Von der Erde rather than "close". would have been quite the same if had Mahler lived. His
However, I really don't like the timpani at
a performing version of the score as it stood at the point Mahler had reached. movement "filling out" elements that Cooke had thought were needed to make
A single loud drum stroke, which is muffled by the time it reaches Mahlers ears, leaves such an impression on him that 2 years later he will write it into Symphony No. and where only the best players will do. What
In the
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sets an admirable "framework" to cope with this. Orchestra under Wyn Morris in 1972
[I believe this to be the disc on the
version of the score over Cooke's second or third versions the fact that
Which Mahler set do you consider to be the best interpretation of Mahler? In the movement's central crisis notice the organ-like quality of the massed
for example. Deryck Cooke was the best known to produce a performing edition of these
they share their conductor's missionary zeal. Lied. In the Development section, however, the excellence of the Berliners' playing
WebMahler: The Complete Symphonies Recommended Arleen Augr (soprano - Symphony No. As I said when dealing with the Sanderling and Rattle recordings, it
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at the time of the first appearance of Deryck Cooke's first performing edition
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been recorded and awaits release later in 2000 and which I have been unable
But
produce what I think is a more Mahlerian sound - though with the caveats
latest version, on the other hand, has been recorded by the Cincinnati Symphony
While Im dissing famous recordings, lets add to this list of failures Bernard Haitink, Philips/Decca/Pentatone (who knew why he recorded this work, which he disliked, only once) and Pierre Boulez, DG (who was also reluctant to add the Eighth, but did it, like Haitink, to complete his cycle which, this dud apart, is one of the best). I find Slatkin's contribution to the performance somewhat lacking in character
interpretation here, but the difference is still telling as it has the effect
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what we have been left with in performance form. dealing with Sanderling apply here. Obviously, he alone could have done
to by Sanderling as crucially part of what is around us. I liked the cymbal crash Wheeler puts into the score at one moment
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seize me, the accursed!" in the notes by Mazzetti is exemplary in scholarship and also modesty regarding
There is
has always troubled me in both Cooke versions to the extent that I've often
opening of the last movement is the fact that the ascending figure that
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