In fact, fabulously recorded.The opening of the 5th mov't starts off so promisingly! The solo tuba player, bass clarinet, muted horn and (even gong) very successfully project the expressive weight of Mahler's spare lines. Then comes the flute solo, which hangs in the air between the speakers, fully fleshed-out and ever so delicately echoing throughout the Hall. As I said, incredible recording!
During the central section's more lively music, the characterful playing perhaps makes the music sound more substantial than it is, but for all the flurry of activity, there's some beautiful, half-lit stretches of repose, which Dausgaard blasts right though. The "primal scream" chords aren't very electric or terrifying at all.
Things continue to go downhill: the string and harp music that follows is Mahler's most intensely personal and intimate, and that's saying a lot. Once again, it sounds like a hasty run-through. Very little rubato, even though the music screams for it.
As the string music builds and horns answer in counterpoint, (minor 2nd followed by leap of 5th,releasing on 4th, etc. IIRC), there's absolutely no physical grace to the leaps, no rubato, no cresc/decrescendo, no nothing.
When we get to the final farewell, who would care this point?
Edits: 11/19/16
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Topic - Just Downloaded the 5th Mov't of Dausgaard's Seattle Maher 10: clueless and expedient as Ormandy's but better recorded - jdaniel@jps.net 15:16:50 11/19/16 (23)
- Well fwiw I went with Neget-Seguin - jdaniel@jps.net 16:22:12 11/20/16 (13)
- After streaming both on QOBUZ.... - Ivan303 20:35:40 11/20/16 (5)
- No complaints about recording, when the conductor gets the whole thing over with in 5 mins, no time for - jdaniel@jps.net 23:18:03 11/20/16 (4)
- The Faure is easy... - Ivan303 06:38:00 11/21/16 (3)
- Fauré is OK... - Ivan303 06:59:41 11/22/16 (2)
- Really? The 2nd movt didn't warm your cockles? Nt - jdaniel@jps.net 08:11:45 11/22/16 (1)
- Nope, cockles remain un-warmed... - Ivan303 08:15:33 11/22/16 (0)
- Definitely not a fan of Dausgaard - although I haven't heard that Mahler 10 [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 18:51:26 11/20/16 (6)
- If the surround is better than the remarkable two-channel , you'd better get the Kleenex out - jdaniel@jps.net 19:16:06 11/20/16 (5)
- My problem with Dausgard is his HIP baggage (vibratoless Schumann, etc.) - Chris from Lafayette 22:42:03 11/20/16 (4)
- Historically informed Mahler? - Ivan303 07:38:55 11/21/16 (3)
- I think there's a multi-channel download available somewhere - gotta look it up - Chris from Lafayette 11:38:08 11/21/16 (2)
- Here. - Kal Rubinson 16:57:29 11/21/16 (1)
- That's it - I knew I'd seen it somewhere - Thanks, Kal! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 17:32:33 11/21/16 (0)
- "Mahler's spare lines" - rbolaw 06:57:31 11/20/16 (4)
- Hard to know where and how Mahler would have elaborated further, but the beginning of the 5th movt feels right - jdaniel@jps.net 08:03:34 11/20/16 (0)
- RE: "Mahler's spare lines" - pbarach 07:19:25 11/20/16 (2)
- RE: "Mahler's spare lines" - rbolaw 15:33:27 11/20/16 (1)
- RE: "Mahler's spare lines" - pbarach 16:09:15 11/20/16 (0)
- RE: Just Downloaded the 5th Mov't of Dausgaard's Seattle Maher 10: clueless and expedient as Ormandy's but better record - pbarach 04:02:40 11/20/16 (3)
- Bought it with one click on Amazon.... - Ivan303 06:55:12 11/20/16 (2)
- RE: Bought it with one click on Amazon.... - pbarach 07:07:36 11/20/16 (1)
- Wigglesworth's Shosty 13th.... After poring through tons of reviews, seemed like Petrenko was marginally - jdaniel@jps.net 08:11:06 11/20/16 (0)