I'm wondering what the general opinion among the more expert of you might be concerning John Elliot Gardiner's DG cycle of the symphonies. I rather like his ninth, but since it's the only complete cycle in my collection there is little to compare the complete collection to. How about opinions on Mahler, specifically complete symphonic collections. I have the EMI Tennstedt, but am partial to Chailly's Fifth, a wonderful rendition IMHO. Alan E. Kayser _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
on 11/26/02 7:28 AM, Alan Kayser at alankayser@hotmail.com wrote:
How about opinions on Mahler, specifically complete symphonic collections. I have the EMI Tennstedt, but am partial to Chailly's Fifth, a wonderful rendition IMHO.
Solti is the clear winner, with Mazel up there as well, although I like Bernstein's DG recording of the 5th (and I'm kind of a 5th guy). The Christa Ludwig DIE KINDERTOTENLIEDER recording on Angel conducted by Adrian Boult is amazing, miles above her subsequent DG recording of it with Van Karajan (whose Mahler I don't like as a rule). Bruno Walter's recordings don't suck either. Gilbert Kaplan has conducted, I think, the 2nd over and over again. The last time he did, he packaged his symphony with recordings of the piano rolls Mahler made of his own pieces. Pretty interesting. sh NP: sun ra, sun ship (delmark)
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