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“Barbirolli’s famous 1969 version on any count is one of the greatest, most warmly affecting performances ever committed to disc, expansive, yet concentrated in feeling: the Adagietto is very moving … A classic version.’” Penguin Guide | 
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| |  | Hans Rosbaud 50th Anniversary EditionSaal 1, Funkhaus, Cologne, 22 October 1951
Mahler: | Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor |
The composer Francis Poulenc said in 1954, ‘Music buffs believe that the greatest living conductor is Toscanini: musicians know that it is Hans Rosbaud.’ Similarly, Gramophone hailed Rosbaud as ‘one of the unsung heroes of mid-20th-century music’. Hans Rosbaud (1895–1962), a native of Graz, was a champion of contemporary works while strongly advocating Mahler’s music after the Second World War. From 1948 to 1962, Rosbaud was associated with the South West German Radio Orchestra, Baden-Baden, which he built into one of the finest orchestras in Germany. He was linked to the Donaueschingen Festival, where he performed the post-War modernist school, and to the Aix-en Provence Festival. He also became a regular guest conductor from 1959 with the Chicago Symphony and made frequent appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic and Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Rosbaud regarded Mahler as the key figure in the birth of twentieth-century music. This ‘live’ studio recording from 1951 is a new addition to the Rosbaud discography, released for the first time on ICA Classics. It has been regarded by a number of German musicologists as a truly legendary performance. Rosbaud is captured here at the height of his powers with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, one of his favourite orchestras. The 50th anniversary of Rosbaud’s death was in December 2012 so this release is a belated tribute to this great conductor. “I detect no lack of feeling or expressiveness in Rosbaud’s reading and he is not afraid to deploy a judicious amount of portamento. It’s good to hear a straightforward approach to this music...The sound is perfectly acceptable, especially given its vintage.” MusicWeb International, 26th April 2013 |
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Yakov Kreizberg died in March 2011 but entrusted this recording to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo to edit and release if they wished. We now have the opportunity to appreciate a great conductor’s interpretation of this orchestral masterpiece. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Duisburger Philharmoniker, Jonathan Darlington Jonathan Darlington and the Duisburger Philharmoniker released a very successful recording of Mahler’s 6th Symphony a few years ago and this is an equally convincing recording. This series provides the natural spontaneity of the concert hall, combined with well honed recording techniques which can communicate the most minute nuances. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Klaus Tennstedt conducts MahlerRoyal Festival Hall, London, 13 December 1988
Mahler: | Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor |
Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), a renowned Mahlerian, conducted this live performance at the Royal Festival Hall a year after stepping down as the LPO’s Principal Conductor. Issued here for the first time on DVD, this same live performance was hailed as ‘legendary’ by Michael McManus in the Gramophone and has been released on CD by EMI. Tennstedt’s 1978 studio recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is described in one edition of the Penguin Guide as ‘an outstanding performance, thoughtful on the one hand, warm and expressive on the other.’ This 1988 live performance is described in a later edition of the same guide as ‘more daring and more idiosyncratic than Tennstedt’s earlier studio recording, but the tension is far keener. The experience hits one at full force’. ‘The emotional tension of the occasion is vividly captured.’ This performance was the last time Tennstedt returned to Mahler 5 with the LPO and the highly personal and passionate interpretation justifies his reputation for outstanding live performances. According to Michael McManus, ‘The phenomenon that was Tennstedt in concert will never, can never, be recreated.’ 1DVD Sound format: Ambient Mastering Picture format: 4:3 Running time: 76’ Subtitles: n/a Menu languages: English Booklet languages: E/F/G Region code: 0 Territory Restrictions: None “The performance epitomises the combination of immensely detailed precision and overwhelming expressive intensity that Tennstedt's many admirers found so special about his Mahler...it includes long takes of Tennstedt himself, revealing his refusal to play to the gallery. Moreover, the DVD is touching: the uncharismatic figure who strides to the podium with such determination is plainly an unwell man, but his weariness never shows for long.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 **** “This Fifth, from the RFH in December 1988, is an entertaining watch. It’s raw, physical, raucous and, most crucially, dangerous...there’s magic in watching this frail figure conjure up sounds of such ferocity. And the physicality of Tennstedt’s approach, glasses perennially on the point of sliding off his perspirant nose, is joyfully reflected in the London Philharmonic’s playing” The Arts Desk, 14th December 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The penultimate release in Valery Gergiev’s acclaimed Mahler cycle features the composer’s Symphony No 5, recorded at the Barbican in September 2010. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony marked a new direction in his compositions and a step away from the choral elements of the previous three symphonies. Despite the opening funereal trumpet solo and march, the work was completed during one of the happiest periods of Mahler’s life, and the symphony showcases virtuosic orchestral playing, an exquisite love song without words for his wife Alma, and a jubilant finale. Gergiev’s recent releases on LSO Live include an acclaimed disc of works by Ravel. Forthcoming titles include music by Debussy, as well as Strauss’s Elektra. Other recent releases on LSO Live include two recordings from Sir Colin Davis. Verdi’s Otello featuring Simon O’Neill and Gerald Finley was an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and Nielsen’s Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 marks the first release in Sir Colin’s eagerly anticipated cycle of the composer’s symphonies. “This is a magnificent performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony in every respect. The orchestral playing is consistently of the highest quality, individually and collectively, the musicians clearly inspired by the insight and total conviction of their conductor...No one can afford to ignore this record.” International Record Review, March 2011 “There are no gimmicks in Gergiev's pacing, just clarity and sense in some of the music's most treacherous corners; you do get some nicely pushed/pulled speeds and sculpted details, but they never trespass on the symphony's line.” Classic FM Magazine, April 2011 *** “In some ways this is the most interesting of Gergiev's Mahler to date...[he] is mindful of Mahler's continuing quest for a sparer and purer kind of music...Gergiev clearly takes his cue for the opening of the symphony from Mahler's "Little Drummer Boy" - quiet, desolate, and sad.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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This is the fifth release in David Zinman & Tonhalle Zurich’s Mahler Symphony cycle, which is set to be complete by 2010. Having completed several cycles, among them the complete Beethoven symphonies (with over 1 million copies sold internationally), the orchestral works of R. Strauss and Schumann, in 2007 the orchestra embarked on this Mahler Symphony cycle. “With very fine playing from the Tonhalle Orchestra and state-of-the-art SACD recording, Zinman offers a direct approach to Mahler to which many will respond.” Penguin Guide, 2010 **/* “[Zinman's] chamber-music approach that worked well for the earlier symphonies seems less appropriate here, where Mahler's contrapuntal mastery of the orchestra as a whole reaches its zenith.” Matthew Rye, The Telegraph, 13th September 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minorGustav Mahler composed his Fifth Symphony in the summers of 1901 and 1902 whilst staying at Wörthesee
in the Austrian Alps, and the influence of nature around him is unquestionable, particularly in the third
movement. Elsewhere, Mahler’s personal life is reflected in the themes of death, marital love and
exuberant joy.
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 16 January 2008 “This performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall in London in January was enthusiastically reviewed; issued now on the London Philharmonic's own label it seems much more ordinary, and no match for a number of the accounts already in the catalogue...Though the wonderfully fine-grained playing of the LPO, spotlighted in the Adagietto, shows again that [Van Zweden] is a conductor who knows what he wants and how to get it, the lack of tension or any sense of real drama in this symphony is frequently troubling - one can get away with a subdued account of the first movement, for instance, but only if something much more muscular and assertive is provided in the second - however likable much of Van Zweden's approach is.” The Guardian, 6th June 2008 *** “The Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden, one-time leader of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, has an instrumentalist's inside view of the music, allowing you to marvel at the composer's contrapuntal mastery with renewed admiration. There is also a sweep to the performance, and plenty of energy, with the Adagietto played as a tender intermezzo rather than as a scene-grabbing indulgence.
The whole orchestra plays magnificently, but it would be remiss not to commend the firmly focused solo trumpet and subtly inflected obbligato horn.” The Telegraph, 21st June 2008 “This performance has a sense of purpose and excitement. Van Zweden, a former leader of the Concertgebouw, segues smoothly between moods, and though he almost lets the finale's bombast get the better of him, he delivers an account that is absorbing right into the tumultuous applause.” The Times, 5th July 2008 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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