DarkAngel
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Thanks for jogging my memory PS, I have been wanting to order the Maderna/BBC Legends M9 for some time now......order has been placed.
Barenboim M9
This is the new buzz CD for Mahler, very good sound quality with lots of inner detail especially woodwind section and fine performance but does not have quite enough to enter my top 5 list. I think his recent M7 ranks higher overall for me, but combine the two and Barenboim has convinced me that he is the best of the current modern day conductors of Mahler and I will continue to buy his future Mahler releases.
Gatti and Oue also have a handful of extremely impressive modern Mahler releases but nothing more has come out.......?????
Originally Posted by PSmith08 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've really, on an unrelated note, gotten to like Bruno Maderna's M9 from 1971. In a way, it is Mahler via Darmstadt, insofar as it is dry-eyed and clear-headed about it all. Still, Maderna's approach was too manic and, at times, frantic to let it become another mid-1970s Boulez record. Maderna's tempi swing pretty wildly, and I can only think that Mahler himself would have approved of such a fluid style. From what I gather, Maderna's cancer - which killed him in 1973 - probably would have been known to him by 1971, or he would have known something was wrong. This isn't a reference disc, that's Ancerl for me, but it's still a good spin. |
Thanks for jogging my memory PS, I have been wanting to order the Maderna/BBC Legends M9 for some time now......order has been placed.
Barenboim M9
This is the new buzz CD for Mahler, very good sound quality with lots of inner detail especially woodwind section and fine performance but does not have quite enough to enter my top 5 list. I think his recent M7 ranks higher overall for me, but combine the two and Barenboim has convinced me that he is the best of the current modern day conductors of Mahler and I will continue to buy his future Mahler releases.
Gatti and Oue also have a handful of extremely impressive modern Mahler releases but nothing more has come out.......?????