[CanadianMaestro]

^ So do I !

 

[FullBright1]

 

[FullBright1]

 

[CanadianMaestro]

New discovery. Read/hear here:

https://www.audite.de/en/product/CD/97731-col_dolce_suono.html

 

[Quinto]

 

[CanadianMaestro]

^

 

[kid vic]

 

[Quinto]

revisiting Eschenbach's Mozart, fascinating..

 

[Quinto]

 

[CanadianMaestro]

quinto, were these re-written by Mahler?

 

[Quinto]

quinto, were these re-written by Mahler?

From what I understand Mahler wrote the Beethoven op.95 arrangement for string orchetra in his early Vienna days,

The Schubert arrangement of 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' was found after his death and wasn't completed..

 

[Quinto]

Mahler did perform the Beethoven op.95 arrangement but it was boo-ed (as he was quite often) for blasphemy..

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Well....good thing Mahler (or nobody else) didn't mess with the other quartets of LvB, esp. the late quartets and op 74 ("Harp), which is my favorite of LvB's string quartets. Leave great ones alone, gd-it.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

The Schubert arrangement of 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' was found after his death and wasn't completed..

Hence the skeleton on the jacket.....

 

[Christer]

quinto, were these re-written by Mahler?

I can't remember who actually ochestrated Beethoven's Grosse Fuge Opus 133 originally for String Quartet.
But I have recordings of it not only in that version, but also for orchestra both by Karajan/BPO and Bernstein/VPO.
And I know that Mahler re-orchestrated for example Schumann's symphonies because he felt they sounded too thick and heavy, and there is a set of those versions from BIS.
But at one of Daniel Harding's Schumann rehearsals in Stockholm I sat in on, I distinctly remember a comment he made to the strings.
Give it your full weight, and don't worry if it sounds a bit thick, that's how Schumann actually wanted it."
I prefer Schumann a "bit thick" too, but quite like some string orchestra versions of both Beethoven's and Schubert's chamber music.
Cheers Christer,today listening to Haydn's Creation on LPs DECCA /Dorati 1977.