New and recent Mahler recordings

[mahlerei]

Shameless plug alert. My thoughts on Roth's M5:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Dec/Mahler_sy5_HMM905285.htm

[mahlerei]

And a pretty positive Gramophone review of Thierry Fischer's Utah M8:

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/mahler-symphony-no-8-fischer

[BBMmk2]

And a pretty positive Gramophone review of Thierry Fischer's Utah M8:

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/...y-no-8-fischer

IIR, wasn't that on Record Review? I quite like to get Francois Xavier Roth's new Mahler 5! Currently listening to vol.1 or Strauss's tone poems.

[Thropplenoggin]

Have you heard Vänskä's new(ish) account of the 5th on BIS? Is it part of a new cycle? This review seems to suggest it is: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/...C3%A4nsk%C3%A4

[mahlerei]

Have you heard Vänskä's new(ish) account of the 5th on BIS? Is it part of a new cycle? This review seems to suggest it is: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/...C3%A4nsk%C3%A4

Yes:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Aug/Mahler_sy5_900150.htm

and it is the start of a new cycle, with No. 6 due for release soon.

[HighlandDougie]

Shameless plug alert. My thoughts on Roth's M5:

http://www.musicweb-international.co..._HMM905285.htm

F-X R's 1st is in my view one of the best performances around. Unlike the rather boxy sound of his 5th (why did they record it in a WDR studio, rather than the Kölner Philharmonie?), it enjoys the excellent acoustics of the Freiburg Konzerthaus. I'll e-mail you about it.

[mahlerei]

F-X R's 1st is in my view one of the best performances around. Unlike the rather boxy sound of his 5th (why did they record it in a WDR studio, rather than the Kölner Philharmonie?), it enjoys the excellent acoustics of the Freiburg Konzerthaus. I'll e-mail you about it.

HD

Agree about the studio sound of the Roth M5. The new Sudbin Rachmaninov 2 & 3 (Maida Vale Studios) is similarly afflicted.

[mahlerei]

Jansons' new M7:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Jan/Mahler_sy7_RCO17006.htm

[richardfinegold]

Jansons' new M7:

http://www.musicweb-international.co...7_RCO17006.htm

Well it’s a rave, although he does acknowledge a lot of the criticisms of Jansons’s previous recordings. I’m tempted to use the blind pig and the acorn analogy, but wouldn’t it be nice if Jansons has jettisoned his internal fussbudget?
Attributing this to a realization of impending mortality on the part of Jansons, as this reviewer does, is surely off the mark:
Jansons had a near death experience nearly 20 years ago and had a defibrillator implanted then, and he has been living with the specter of sudden cardiac death since.

[Alison]

This must have been one of Jansons' first concerts as not the chief conductor of the orchestra; maybe this produced some sort of chemical reaction.

I'm always up for a new Seventh, a work I suggest particularly suitable for the sonoroties of the Concertgebouw orchestra.

[mahlerei]

I'm always up for a new Seventh, a work I suggest particularly suitable for the sonorities of the Concertgebouw orchestra.

Agreed.

[BBMmk2]

Janson's new M7? Goodness! I'll have to check that one out, Mahlerei!

[BBMmk2]

I know some members find Janson’s interpretations rather episodic, but I think they flow rather nicely.

[Stanfordian]

I know some members find Janson’s interpretations rather episodic, but I think they flow rather nicely.

Yes maestro, there are those critical of Jansons. I'm not one of them! I admire most of his recordings and love to see him in live concert when I can.

[BBMmk2]

Yes maestro, there are those critical of Jansons. I'm not one of them! I admire most of his recordings and love to see him in live concert when I can.

Oh he’s be of the conductor’s on my wish list to see! How I wish I could go!