SFS Media presents The Mahler Project a deluxe, seventeen SACD set featuring all of the label s highly acclaimed recordings of music by Gustav Mahler, performed by the San Francisco Symphony led by Michael Tilson Thomas and recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall between 2001 and 2009. Released in installments over the past ten years, the individual volumes of the set have garnered the highest critical acclaim, including seven GRAMMY® awards. With over 18 hours of music, this deluxe edition features the original liner notes from each recording compiled into one complete easy to navigate, 324-pa... [Read More]
Claudio Abbado (1933 2014) fell under the spell of Mahler s music during his years as a student in Vienna. His first memories of Mahler, conducted by Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos and Leonard Bernstein, left a deep impression: Their interpretations were great; each of them had such a strong personality. In 1963, Abbado travelled to New York as winner of the Mitropoulos Conducting Competition to work as Bernstein s assistant at the New York Philharmonic. In 2010 he recalled a Mahler rehearsal: I remember very well during the rehearsal of Mahler s Second Symphony that Bernstein went to sit i... [Read More]
- German pressings of the immense Sony Classical Masters Catalog in smart, desirable and collectible multi-disc editions - The Sony catalog is replete with legendary artists and many of the greatest recordings of the classical repertoire - Box fronts feature large, prominently displayed photo of the featured artist - Slender, shelf-friendly boxes; CD's housed in space-saving slipsleeves
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Otto Klemperer's death, EMI Classics pays tribute to the incomparable conductor with the release of an extensive edition of 11 luxurious yet affordably-priced boxsets. Three new sets devoted to Mahler, Bach, Rameau, Handel, Gluck & Haydn and 20th Century Music are coming out this May. Otto Klemperer had a remarkable career as a young man but it was at the age of 70 that he started a series of recordings that would not only establish him as an internationally renowned conductor but provide EMI with a catalogue of recordings that became and remain touchstones... [Read More]
In certain respects Carlo Giulini's 1977 Mahler Ninth is a sonically and orchestrally upgraded counterpart to Bruno Walter's valedictory remake from the early '60s. The Italian conductor's lovingly nuanced first movement and genuine feeling for the Ländler's bumptious gait recalls the older conductor, although Giulini's slower pace for the former allows the more sparsely scored portions more time to breathe. The Chicago brass section truly shines in the Rondo- Burlesque, while the strings dominate Giulini's anguished yet dignified Adagio. While Herbert van Karajan's Berlin Ninths stand alone ... [Read More]
Valery Gergiev's performances and recordings of Mahler's symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra have garnered international acclaim. They have performed the works in Europe, North America and the Far East and their recordings have received numerous awards. The symphonies were originally released between 2008 and 2011 and will now be made available together for the first time as a specially priced and beautifully packaged ten SACD boxed set. Each of Mahler's symphonies could be considered a masterpiece, employing large orchestras, matching his view of the symphony as an all-encompassing ... [Read More]
There are few better places to start celebrating the legacy of Leonard Bernstein than with his legendary Complete Symphonies of Beethoven with the Wiener Philharmoniker, but offered as never before: not only in hardback edition with 5CDs plus 1 Blu-ray Audio disc in hi-resolution 192kHz/24-bit stereo sound, but also in 5.0 Surround Sound Audio. • 5CDs + 1 Blu-ray Audio disc presenting Bernstein’s legendary Beethoven cycle with the Wiener Philharmoniker• Remastered at 192kHz/24-bit • The complete cycle is presented on one Blu-ray Audio disc in 5.0 Surround Sound + 5CDs• Hardback book ... [Read More]
“There is no more irony, sarcasm, no resentment whatsoever. There is only the majesty of death,” said Otto Klemperer of the closing Adagio of Mahler’s 9th Symphony, a work he had first conducted in Berlin in 1925. More than 50 years later, and soon after the sessions for this recording, his mighty interpretation of the symphony at London’s Royal Festival Hall with the New Philharmonia Orchestra was greeted with a standing ovation.
This 23 CD box set bears witness to Mehtas work in the recording studio for Decca between May 1965 (Bruckners Ninth Symphony with the Wiener Philharmoniker) and July 1980 (Tchaikovskys Capriccio italien with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra). The bulk of the recordings date from the 1970s, and the period of white-hot inspiration when Mehta achieved and consolidated his international reputation. There are textbook performances here: the orchestral conflicts found Mahlers Second Symphony, for example, or the visionary build-up of internal tension in the final movement of the same composers Thir... [Read More]
Critically reviews all recordings of Mahler's symphonies released since 1986. Together with Smoley's earlier volume (1986), virtually every commercial recording ever released of Mahler's symphonies is discussed in an objective
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