In Reply to: Depends On Whether You Want The Real Mahler or Polite Suburban Sedan Mahler posted by Newey on April 12, 2017 at 19:07:17:
You don't have to buy into the histrionics in Mahler. You don't need a Bernstein swooning over the orchestra like he's saving the world. Mahler's music itself is plenty good enough to be played simply as music.
If you want to hear the music in Symphony 2, listen to Boulez or Gielen, or Klemperer for that matter. Intelligent, musical..... you don't need more than that. It's quite enough.
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Follow Ups
- No - depends on whether you want the music itself or just histrionics - andy evans 00:53:21 04/13/17 (7)
- Ahh, poor Solti - rbolaw 07:05:50 04/13/17 (6)
- His Mahler 2nd was my first. - jdaniel@jps.net 07:31:07 04/13/17 (5)
- "Bernstein doesn't press forward enough" - Chris from Lafayette 08:01:13 04/13/17 (4)
- RE: "Bernstein doesn't press forward enough" - jdaniel@jps.net 09:07:42 04/13/17 (3)
- Just giving you a hard time! - Chris from Lafayette 11:16:20 04/13/17 (2)
- No worries, it's not as if I responded with veiled death threats. : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 12:53:37 04/13/17 (1)
- Oh! You mean like some people here? [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 14:19:02 04/13/17 (0)