Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'

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This is a very beautiful Mahler Sixth - with all the strengths and weaknesses that implies. Rarely have the refinement and richness of Mahler's orchestral palette been so lovingly demonstrated. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2008
Catalogue No: CSOR901804
Label: CSO Resound
Length: 90 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'

Work length1:30:30

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink

I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig

Track length25:52

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II. Scherzo. Wuchtig

Track length14:20

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III. Andante moderato

Track length16:12

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IV. Finale. Allegro moderato - Allegro energico

Track length34:06

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Recorded live in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center in Chicago on October 18, 19, 20, and 23, 2007

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June 2008

This is a very beautiful Mahler Sixth - with all the strengths and weaknesses that implies. Rarely have the refinement and richness of Mahler's orchestral palette been so lovingly demonstrated.

August 2008

After Gergiev, this might seem staid - but is builds into a remarkable reading… Haitink's finale belies the slowness of its pacing, its accumulation of inner tensions the fruit of a lifetime's experience with this score. There are more splenetic, precise accounts available, few which convey its burden of care in quite such magisterial fashion.

31st May 2008

If the performance didn't quite move me in the way that Gergiev did, or before him Jansons (LSO Live), Abbado (DG) and Tilson Thomas (San Francisco Symphony), it may be the fault of the recording, which is perhaps better at capturing detail (the harps and celesta sound particularly well focused) than impressing with its sonic impact.

10th May 2008

A powerful sense of drama pervades Haitink's draining account of Mahler's Tragic Symphony, the Sixth, a stunning testament to the Dutchman's reign as principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
His Chicago musicians take on new character with each increasingly vivid episode, from the hungry chomp-chomp of the opening to the golden serenity of the Andante. The Scherzo grunts, cackles and laughs through the blasé horn, although the cod-baroque strings could have more comic lightness. The massive finale is dominated by the mental image of the solemn, executioner-like percussionist with his huge mallet moving slowly towards the wooden box of fate.

Chicago Sun-Times Concert Review

Mahler's massive Symphony No. 6 is played by Haitink and the CSO with a transparency, even a delicacy, that seems to stop time.

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'

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