Mahler Symphonies Favorite Recordings - Page 246

Hi,

 

I am glad that you liked the rendition.

It took basically 3 months to do this, although I had started on it 15 years ago :)

 

About learning this: is not too difficult. Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 is easy to use - the sounds are just embedded as a VST synth within Sonar.

Sonar is a bot more complex. but adding, recording, and editing the MIDI tracks is no big deal. I usually play each track live from the score sheet (so you need to be able to read music and understand the proper transpositions etc.), then I add the "expression" with a wheel after the note recording. Finally at the end I draw the tempo map. Is largely "try and error".

 

Cheers,

Reinhold 

Great - I hope you enjoyed my recording!

 

Cheers,

Reinhold

 

 

I'm still out here - I just checked this thread for the first time in a very long time and found this post.  I'll have to do some reading to catch up.

 

I've been listening to the Bertini set lately as well!

I'm currently listening to/watching the DVD of Abbado conducting the 3rd with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. 1st time I fell asleep early on and woke up for the final movement, that struck me as cool and detached. I restarted and now seems that I slept through a rousing 2nd movement. I think I'll have to watch this again tomorrow before sending it back to netflix.

Anyone else have any Mahler DVD/Blu-Ray recommendations?

On another note, I've picked up most if not all of the Zinman RCA Mahler SACD's. I've made no effort to keep track of which I like and why at this point, except to notice that they seem to be a mixed bag.

Has anyone downloaded the high resolution Mahler from the BSO?

I've picked up a few of the Abbado DVDs and have been thoroughly impressed: nos. 2, 5, 6, & 7. Excellent in all ways: playing, conducting, sound, video. No complaints at all from me. I wish the older Bernstein dvds could have been at such a consistently high level all the way around.

Interesting thread.  I've been an obsessed Mahlerian now for close to 35 years.  But I own so many Mahler symphonies as is, I can't imagine buying many more.  Plus there are so many terrific concerts available for download. 

Can you provide a link to some of the great concerts for download??

 

I just finished listening through this for maybe the fourth time during the last month - and it keeps impressing me:

 

 

The first time I heard it in my headphones could not help myself bursting out a loud "Whoooaaw!" - this symphony has so many feelings in it.

I do not use classical music for casual music consumption but for dedicated listening only. I really need to concentrate and soak myself deep into these works. I havn't found any other classical music that can satisfy me like Mahler - except some of the great Wagner operas - Tannhäuser in particular.

 

Mahlers music really takes a long time to "digest" but the more I taste it the more layers will reveal itself to me. I guess I can spend many years going through all ten symphonies. Spice it up with some background reading from Mahlers life and the thoughts and emotions he have poured into his music. This is what music is all about for me! 

Edited by rasmushorn - 9/1/10 at 1:44am

Try the Yahoo Concert Archive group.  They have all these radio broadcasts in more or less good sound.  The Symphony Share Google group has both radio broadcasts and a lot of out-of-print LPs transferred to FLAC format.  For instance, I've listened the past three days to a live Mahler 10 (Cooke) with Chailly and Gewandhaus and a Mahler 5 with Gatti and Vienna. 

Boy, you said it. I've been listening to Mahler for over 40 years now and still have so much to learn. The music has endless fascinations. There are so many recordings, mercifully few bad ones, then there are the festivals, live concerts. And the books! Last year I spend a blissful summer reading the entire 4 volume Henry Louis de Lagrange bio. Great reading and more information than you can possibly remember. But what was fun was to intersperse the reading with the music in chronological order. And not only Mahler, but the music he championed. So much Mahler...so little time.