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In Reply to: RE: Sure - but banality is banality, even if it's intentional and cynical posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 27, 2017 at 11:18:14
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But the fact is, Mahler does it far, far less than Shostakovitch - at least as I hear it.
Yeah, I like Mahler just fine (over 80 recordings of the Fifth!), but, right now, I'd say he's rated a bit higher then his music deserves. I think that a factor in Mahler's popularity lies in the fact that his music has now become a vehicle to show off orchestral virtuosity. (And no doubt, the same is true with Shostakovitch.)
There was a time when Mahler's music was not universally respected, to say the least. I saw an interview of Leonard Bernstein in which he relates that when he began working on it with the Vienna Philharmonic, not all of the orchestra's players were happy, to put it mildly.
Yet nowadays nobody questions Mahler's place among the major composers. Musical taste is a funny thing.
"There was a time when Mahler's music was not universally respected, to say the least."
I was late to appreciat Mahler, REALLY late, but I knew the problem was ME and not that of Mahler. As a dyed in the wool 'rhomantic', it's taken me a while to learn to appreciate music within its own context. As I posted here earlier, I don't think it would make any sense to set Yevtushenko's writing to music from The Nutcracker, even though it's Russian, but WTFDIK I'm not a musicologist.
That said I'm putting the boys pictured above in my VERY late group of composers for appreciation.
As in the years after my passing. =:-0
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I'm sommat of a Mahler fan.
Jeremy
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