Mahler: Symphony No. 5
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Mahler's Fifth was one of the pieces Leonard Bernstein owned. This interpretation is broader than the one he recorded with the New York Philharmonic in the early 1960s, but it's little changed in feeling. It is, however, far more polished and a good deal more persuasive. The recording, like all of Bernstein's later Mahler cycle, was made live; here, he and the Vienna Philharmonic give a gripping performance full of telling nuance, intensely expressive yet thoroughly controlled. It's a reading both Dionysiac and "Bachic"--as in J. S. Bach, not Bacchus--one in which the impetuous energy of the score is transmitted to the fullest degree, but not at the expense of the extraordinary (for Mahler) contrapuntal detail. Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is Bernstein's sureness of touch, his ability to realize the many little expressive gestures that no longer merely draw attention to themselves the way they used to, but add up to something miraculous. The Philharmonic players, with him all the way, contribute many wonderful touches, especially the strings. The recording, made not in Vienna but in Frankfurt's Alte Oper, is solid and has remarkable impact. While the bass is a bit diffuse and the sound stage not the clearest, the image is reasonably detailed and well balanced, the atmosphere good. --Ted Libbey
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If you're looking for the most ideal and imitated take on Mahler's most famous symphony, it's all here. Bernstein conducts not only with his famous wild and wickedly creative energy but also with some of the most mature music-making thats ever been wielded by the maestro. Sometimes Bernstein goes somewhere and only half the orchestra can keep up. Here, the VPO are incontrovertibly aware, agreeable, and accurate. The first movement is taken very slow and dark, but the colors that both maestro and orchestra provide keep the listener tingling and alert. There are moments (as usual of Bernstein) of awe of perfection. Bernstein's Sony issue was a disaster-a mess of a recording. Here, the man gets everything right and indeed, we have Mahler as it should be.
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
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It seems to me that Bernstein found himself in the shadow of Bruno Walter when it came to Mahler. After hearing recording sessions of particularly important works, Bernstein was prone to ask "Why does he do that?" (Das Lied von der Erde). One need only listen to Walter's NYPO recording as remastered by Sony to hear why. Indeed, the story goes, Columbia asked Bernstein to postpone recording Mahler's First Symphony because Walter had recently recorded it with the Columbia Symphony. Bernstein, astonished, asked how they could ask such a thing. The Walter recording was played for him and he instantly demurred: "Oh my God! That's unbelievable....It's his." And so it seems to have been for all of Mahler. The reason Walter did it that way, can be easily understood by listening to the piano roll of the 1st movement played by Mahler. Walter's musical integrity to what he'd heard Mahler play is evident in his recordings. None of the affectation or histrionics, rather pure musicality. It is the better choice.
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