BaL 19.03.11 Mahler Symphony no. 10

[Bryn]

The discs of the Samale & Mazzuca performing version are ridiculously expensive, but you can get some idea from this series of YouTube postings. Unfortunately the first and fifth movements are divided into two sections each, and the edit points are rather untidy. They data rate of the aac audio appears to be at around 112kbps.:

Movements

1a = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPe6...yer_detailpage
1b = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPe6...yer_detailpage
2 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anrdR...yer_detailpage
3 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNwam...yer_detailpage
4 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SXl1...yer_detailpage
5a = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daV2g...yer_detailpage
5b = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osp59...yer_detailpage

[Barbirollians]

EA - you have left out the Bournemouth SO/Rattle.

[Brassbandmaestro]

I love this work. I dont care if it not 'pure' Mahler. As far as I am concerned, it is. There are some very good advocates for this work, of which I have the BPO/Rattle reocrding. I am not so taken with(my nnamesake, as it happens), Joe Wheeler. It just just doesnt flow as the Derycke Cooke version does.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA - you have left out the Bournemouth SO/Rattle.

As far as I'm aware this one isn't available at present.

[Bryn]

As far as I'm aware this one isn't available at present.

Indeed not. Something of a suprise, that. Not on CFP any more and not even on HMV Classics, it would appear. It can, however, be purchased as a download (at a somewhat inflated price where amazon.co.uk is concerned), from various vendors, so I think it might just get a mention in passing.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Indeed not. Something of a suprise, that. Not on CFP any more and not even on HMV Classics, it would appear. It can, however, be purchased as a download (at a somewhat inflated price where amazon.co.uk is concerned), from various vendors, so I think it might just get a mention in passing.

How does the Bournemouth Rattle version compare with his Berlin performance? The latter is my only "complete" version of this symphony.

[Bryn]

How does the Bournemouth Rattle version compare with his Berlin performance? The latter is my only "complete" version of this symphony.

I have never been much taken with either of the Rattle recordings of Cooke et al performing versions, and have not listened to them for quite a while, so will leave it to others to comment on their relative merits. I know some very much prefer the approach taken in Bournemouth recording, but that may well be down to familiarity.

[Tapiola]

I am very much looking forward to this BAL. Having lived with the Morris recording on lp for many years and having performed the Cooke 2 (with Goldschmidt and Matthews) version maybe 15 years ago, I recently acquired the Barshai version. Tony Duggan's Musicweb review of this last-named is very interesting.

And I agree with Bryn about the Rattle, at least in his first recording, which I do not own but have heard a few times. I do not know Rattle's second.

[Alison]

Stephen Johnson. That's better.

In any case Secko wouldn't be able to follow his familiar NOT PASSIONATE ENOUGH THEREFORE GO FOR THE INCOMPARABLE BERNSTEIN
template this time.

[Brassbandmaestro]

How does the Bournemouth Rattle version compare with his Berlin performance? The latter is my only "complete" version of this symphony.

I reckon the Berlin recording far outways the Bournemouth.Alkthough, with memories of the old messageboards, I think there was a discussion about this and therre were a view differences of opinion, naturally!