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Just Downloaded the 5th Mov't of Dausgaard's Seattle Maher 10: clueless and expedient as Ormandy's but better recorded

Posted by jdaniel@jps.net on November 19, 2016 at 15:16:50

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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