Archive for the ‘Symphony No 5’ Category
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Overall Rating:
Total Customer Reviews: (25)
Seller: Amazon
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[Read More]
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Overall Rating:
Total Customer Reviews: (13)
Seller: Amazon
Gustavo Dudamel presents his highly anticipated second album on Deutsche Grammophon. Again with the forces of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the disc features another symphonic masterpiece - Mahler's captivating Symphony No. 5. Gustavo Dudamel's debut album of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 caused a celebration in the music[Read More]
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 [Hybrid SACD]
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Overall Rating:
Total Customer Reviews: (8)
Seller: Amazon
Although in a letter to his wife Mahler expressed doubts about what the public would make of his Fifth Symphony, it has become one of his most popular works. As always, he kept revising it for several years; the final version, heard here, was not published until 1964. Cast in five movements, it opens with a heavy, achingly mournful Funeral March, [Read More]
