New and recent Mahler recordings

[Bryn]

I bought the Currentzis Mahler 6 when it appeared. Hadn't listened to M6 for years but found this very fresh and exciting. Recording a little larger than life, you can (I think) hear the strong intake of breaths from the strings before they attack an entry! Anyone else acquired this recording?

Noisy breathing also infects the otherwise excellent newly released Beethoven Piano Concertos 2 and 5 from Bezuidenhout and co.

[Barbirollians]

It is almost too beautiful too perfect but Jurowski’s Mahler 4 on the LPO label is gorgeously played and a good childlike soprano in the finale.

[Lordgeous]

I bought the Currentzis Mahler 6 when it appeared. Hadn't listened to M6 for years but found this very fresh and exciting. Recording a little larger than life, you can (I think) hear the strong intake of breaths from the strings before they attack an entry! Anyone else acquired this recording?

[pastoralguy]

Mrs PG and I are going to hear Mahler 6 tonite with Thomas Sondergaard conducting the RSNO. In preparation for this I've been listening to the Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic recording on DG. It's pretty fantastic!!

[pastoralguy]

Symphony No. 7
Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer
Rec. 2015, Palace of Arts, Budapest
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA38019 SACD

Fischer crowns his cycle with a very fine Seventh.

I ordered mine from PRESTO four weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived!

[Bryn]

Mahler: 'Titan' - a tone poem in symphonic form (1893/4 Hamburg/Weimar version)

Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth

F-X R released a fine performance of the final four-movement version of the 1st in 2011, with his-then SWR Fribourg and Baden-Baden SO so he has form in this work. Thomas Hengelbrock recorded this (1893/94) version in 2014 - and now we have a version attempting to replicate the sound of a German/Austrian (more specifically Viennese) orchestra in the 1890s. I hope that doesn't sound like damning with faint praise as the results are - at least for me - a reminder of how "modern" this music must have sounded at the time. I love it - fine recording , too, and download currently at a reduced price at e-classical.com.

eClassical have it on offer (44.1/24, 44.1/16 and mp3). However, unlike Harmonia Mundi, they have it down as "Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major", which, of course, it is not. I will download it shortly.

[HighlandDougie]

Mahler: 'Titan' - a tone poem in symphonic form (1893/4 Hamburg/Weimar version)

Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth

F-X R released a fine performance of the final four-movement version of the 1st in 2011, with his-then SWR Fribourg and Baden-Baden SO so he has form in this work. Thomas Hengelbrock recorded this (1893/94) version in 2014 - and now we have a version attempting to replicate the sound of a German/Austrian (more specifically Viennese) orchestra in the 1890s. I hope that doesn't sound like damning with faint praise as the results are - at least for me - a reminder of how "modern" this music must have sounded at the time. I love it - fine recording , too, and download currently at a reduced price at e-classical.com.

[mahlerei]

Symphony No. 7
Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer
Rec. 2015, Palace of Arts, Budapest
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA38019 SACD

Fischer crowns his cycle with a very fine Seventh.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Looks like the son of Gregor is giving the finger to Horwitz. The Roth Mahler 3 is his 'disc of the week'.

Well! I don't blame him - if that First Movement is typical, then this shall be joining Bernstein and Horenstein among my very favourite recordings.

[Bryn]

Hurwitz on Roth's Mahler 3:

https://www.classicstoday.com/review/roths-ho-hum-mahler-third/

Not my experience, I have to say.

And should it shock? It's not the Sixth, after all.

D

Looks like the son of Gregor is giving the finger to Horwitz. The Roth Mahler 3 is his 'disc of the week'.

[BBMmk2]

I don’t care what the critics say about Roth’s Mahler, it’s a fantastic congenial whole.

[Bryn]

O.k., I admit it. I did not read the review in question. I made a word search of it, first for "oboe", then "anglais" (the "cor" would be redundant). Not finding either, I assumed the review could only be superficial, at best.

[I have not streamed the whole thing, as yet, but have listened to the 4th movement. Not the most elegantly executed hinaufziehen instructions, perhaps, but at least the markings are observed. I plan to listen to the whole work on the morrow.]

[HighlandDougie]

Hurwitz on Roth's Mahler 3:

https://www.classicstoday.com/review/roths-ho-hum-mahler-third/

Not my experience, I have to say.

And should it shock? It's not the Sixth, after all.

D

Ah, the Sage of Stanford pronounces judgement. No surprise that he doesn't like it - but, should we bother? Non, non et non. His soi-disant expertise on, well, almost any piece of music you can shake a stick at has, for me at least, little if no credibility. Indeed, as other forumistas have posted in the past, a bad notice from him is usually a strong recommendation. What will he have to say, I wonder, about Ivan Fischer's 7th? Actually, I don't in the least care ....

[mahlerei]

Hurwitz on Roth's Mahler 3:

https://www.classicstoday.com/review/roths-ho-hum-mahler-third/

Not my experience, I have to say.

And should it shock? It's not the Sixth, after all.

D

[Alison]

So will you be getting the re-vamped CDs plus Blu-ray box from Presto Classical come March 1st? Their price is way lower then Amazon's, by the way.

Oh thanks Nethersage. Yes I want to acquire this set, something every Haitink fan will want for completeness:)