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Deliverance? I thought it was the Castrol GTX commercial in the early 80's! [nt] ;-)

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Chris from Lafayette

In Reply to: RE: Mahler 7th Finale. Soundtrack to Deliverance. nt posted by jdaniel@jps.net on November 03, 2020 at 16:57:36

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FWIW, I just downloaded Gergiev's LSO Mahler 7th, half-off at Chandos website. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 08:26:49 11/04/20 (6)
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- I'm jealous - Chris from Lafayette 10:44:03 11/04/20 (5)
  I've got only 3 and 5 from Gergiev's Mahler/LSO cycle. To get a 5-Ch incarnation of 7, I'd have to get the SACD (available at Amazon for $6.23 - actually not so bad!) or download the DSD-64 file from Native DSD. . . to the tune of $32.99. (No wonder I don't order from that site unless there's a sale going on!)
  - RE: I'm jealous - pbarach 11:06:59 11/04/20 (4)
    Chris, Gergiev's Mahler with LSO is uniformly terrible, and the Barbican acoustic doesn't help. There are much better 5.0 recordings of every single one of those symphonies.
    - I disagree about the two that I have - Chris from Lafayette 00:44:13 11/05/20 (0)
      Yes - the Barbican isn't great, and the SQ on the recordings is hardly state of the art. However, we were there at one of the concerts used for the Fifth, and what I hear on the SACD definitely matches what I heard in the hall. I would not characterize either the performances or the engineering as terrible. YMMV and all that.
    - Your opinion definitely aligns with a lot of reviewers - jdaniel@jps.net 17:45:33 11/04/20 (2)
      I've listened to samples and I do like the way Gergiev's 7th opens: very heavy and dark, just the was I imagine it would sound if I wrote the music.
      We'll see if the spell he casts continues. I'm not very picky about much of the 7th apart from the 1st mov't "moonlight" music.
      EDIT: The 8th was recorded in a church IIRC? I was hoping that the entire cycle was recorded outside the Barbican.
      
      Edits: 11/04/20
      - Gergiev's Mahler 8 - pbarach 04:54:35 11/05/20 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Your opinion definitely aligns with a lot of reviewers posted by jdaniel@jps.net on November 04, 2020 at 17:45:33
        
        I believe it was recorded in St. Paul's Cathedral.
      - I haven't heard the Seventh yet myself, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 00:47:29 11/05/20 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Your opinion definitely aligns with a lot of reviewers posted by jdaniel@jps.net on November 04, 2020 at 17:45:33
        
        . . . one of the Amazon posters claims that Gergiev in the last movement puts the pedal to the metal in the manner of the old Kondrashin/Concertgebouw recording. If that's true, I'd say, fasten your seat belt!

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