Posts Tagged ‘Zander’

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 – Benjamin Zander / Philharmonia Orchestra / Camilla Tilling, soprano

Saturday, October 10th, 2009
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Benjamin Zander's Mahler series has been winning accolades, and his Fourth is fully up to its predecessors. He takes an expansive view of Mahler's shortest, most accessible, and sunniest symphony, caressing its plentiful melodies and capturing its serene mood. Zander, as always, pays close attention to Mahler's markings. As a result, and aided by T[Read More]

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 – Benjamin Zander / Philharmonia Orchestra

Saturday, October 10th, 2009
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 / Zander, Philharmonia Orchestra

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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Mahler's Ninth is the epitome of his symphonic writing. It is in four movements: a 30-minute, discursive but highly polyphonic treatment of several extended melodies and striking rhythmic motives; a 15-minute dance-like movement with three distinct themes in different tempos; a riotous, 13-minute scherzo that pits energetic motives against each oth[Read More]

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 Tragic – Benjamin Zander / Philharmonia Orchestra

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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Benjamin Zander's ongoing Telarc Mahler series continues with a Sixth Symphony that will please those who have followed his earlier Mahler outings, but it doesn't challenge such outstanding Sixths as those by Bernstein (either his earlier Sony or the later DG), Gielen (Hänssler), and Levi (also on Telarc). Like Gielen, he steers a middle course be[Read More]

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 – Benjamin Zander / Philharmonia Orchestra

Monday, October 5th, 2009
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Benjamin Zander follows his outstanding live recording of Mahler's 9th with an even more impressive version of the 5th, made in the studio and thus yielding even more lifelike sound and orchestral polish. The opening funeral march movement is especially notable for the outstanding trumpet soloist, neatly judged tempos, and natural-sounding ruba[Read More]