In Reply to: Which Mahler 2 to start with? posted by hesson11 on April 12, 2017 at 17:33:53:
...does it for me. He imparts a sense of grandeur that when you hear it, sounds like the only way to play it. Although, of course there are other ways. But Walter just doesn't do it for me.
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Follow Ups Full ThreadTopic - Which Mahler 2 to start with? - hesson11 17:33:53 04/12/17 (46)
- RE: Which Mahler 2 to start with -- Kubelik, Levine (nt) - goldenthal 11:33:31 04/17/17 (0)
- RE: Which Mahler 2 to start with? - learsfool 21:48:20 04/15/17 (1)
- Agreed. - Kal Rubinson 13:11:55 04/17/17 (0)
- RE: Which Mahler 2 to start with? - fstein 13:26:59 04/13/17 (1)
- Yeah - and, BTW, which Mehta? - Chris from Lafayette 14:16:47 04/13/17 (0)
- RE: A sleeper stumbled over - kitch29 13:25:19 04/13/17 (0)
- If you get the chance before the concert watch this performance - Sibelius 08:54:16 04/13/17 (0)
- Sticking with your nominees... - Doktor Brahms 08:50:27 04/13/17 (0)
- LOL. Only 10..........so far. But wait, more inmates may reply and the list will get longer. - Rick W 08:11:41 04/13/17 (11)
- That's why I said to go with the biggest organ entry. Nt - jdaniel@jps.net 12:41:41 04/13/17 (5)
- aargh. nt - Rick W 13:52:33 04/13/17 (4)
- Well, it's an important moment to get right. Mahler said he was so tempted to employ it earlier - jdaniel@jps.net 17:36:33 04/13/17 (3)
- The aargh was 'cause I thought it was a double entendre :-) nt nt - Rick W 22:55:24 04/13/17 (2)
- I thought that's what you thought! nt - D Harvey 11:27:04 04/14/17 (1)
- OK, "grandest" organ entry. : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 11:35:59 04/14/17 (0)
- I was tempted to throw in a couple more - but I restrained myself! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 08:56:26 04/13/17 (3)
- Chris, if you've really owned 80 recordings of ANY piece....... - Rick W 12:06:36 04/13/17 (2)
- I think there are people on this board who have. . . - Chris from Lafayette 12:38:58 04/13/17 (1)
- RE: I think there are people on this board who have. . . - Rick W 14:08:31 04/13/17 (0)
- RE: LOL. Only 10..........so far. But wait, more inmates may reply and the list will get longer. - hesson11 08:45:18 04/13/17 (0)
- RE: Which Mahler 2 to start with? - Kas 06:23:45 04/13/17 (0)
- Klemperer... - Paul_A 06:05:49 04/13/17 (0)
- RE: Which Mahler 2 to start with? - vahe 04:43:03 04/13/17 (0)
- Thanks - hesson11 21:53:29 04/12/17 (0)
- Depends On Whether You Want The Real Mahler or Polite Suburban Sedan Mahler - Newey 19:07:17 04/12/17 (17)
- 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)
- Sorry, not to rile you up, but Solti barely scratches the surface in either London or Chicago, though I prefer - jdaniel@jps.net 19:19:52 04/12/17 (8)
- OK - but you beg questions in your reply - Chris from Lafayette 19:43:40 04/12/17 (7)
- Solti LSO - pbarach 14:54:26 04/13/17 (1)
- Yes! I hear similar engineering mischief in other Solti/Mahler recordings too! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:30:40 04/16/17 (0)
- "Over energized." You answered you own question. - jdaniel@jps.net 20:20:01 04/12/17 (4)
- Agreed on the Morris 8th... - Jim Treanor 23:08:47 04/12/17 (3)
- RE: Agreed on the Morris 8th... - johngladneyproffitt 07:50:37 04/14/17 (1)
- If only the Soprano 1 hadn't gone flat on her soft, floated high Bb in the end. McConnell w/Tennstedt perfect - jdaniel@jps.net 11:40:15 04/14/17 (0)
- Isn't it amazing how Morris can take Part 1 at a slower speed yet it has more propulsion? nt - jdaniel@jps.net 07:47:01 04/13/17 (0)
- My faves: Abbado (Lucerne 2004); Boulez (Vienna Phil.); and Tennstedt (London PO 1989) - John Marks 18:43:53 04/12/17 (0)
- Bernstein's last on DGG. Best. Entrance. Of. Organ. Ever. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 18:35:08 04/12/17 (0)
- Yeah. - Kal Rubinson 17:58:38 04/12/17 (0)
- RE: Which Mahler 2 to start with? - merlinus 17:53:29 04/12/17 (0)
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- Klemperer... - Paul_A 06:05:49 04/13/17 (0)