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In Reply to: RE: Karajan's digital Mahler 9th to be released on Lp in December posted by steve.ott@kctcs.edu on November 27, 2015 at 18:39:08:
I know the analog version pretty well and IMHO the final performance is better. Leaps and bounds better. Some of the 1st mov't passages on the Lp version and downright painful. Not DGG's best massed-string sound, (which isn't saying much). I can't recall the recording quality of the digital live take, but the DGG live recordings I've heard--Bernstein's Beethoven Op 131 and Brahms PC's with Zimerman--have more "air" and "warmth."
The two areas in which K scores over the previous recording, (and most, IMHO) are 1) the 3rd mov't interlude, which has a wonderful bittersweet quality about it and becomes almost hallucinogenic by the end, and 2) the entire 4th mov't: the concentration never flags. I love the "cold" quality of the material connecting the big, lyrical string music. Riveting.
The Berlin play their hearts out.
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