Is clearly the best of the new versions to appear.A century after his death, Mahler’s music resonates more powerfully than ever. Great Bruckner Sevenths of Herbert von Karajan (with the VPO - DG), Riccardo Chailly (DSO Berlin - Decca) or Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (Saarbrücken RSO - Oehms) it Jansons took the Munich RSO to Vienna in 2007 and this recording was made in the Großer Saal des Musikvereins. The past year was a strong one for Bruckner's Symphony No 7 with new recordings from Stuttgart (Sir Roger Norrington - Hänssler) and Frankfurt It is recommended for journeymenĪnd Another Seventh from Jansons: Anton Bruckner, this time, and the Hybrid SACD appeared as part of The BR Klassik inaugural issue Imperfect though the Munich version may be, it is in large measure a very entertaining and an authentically live concert experience. A perfect performance of the Seventh lies somewhere between Oslo and Munich and perhaps it may emerge in due course from the Concertgebouw. In the finale, the conductor impresses mainly with a cool-headed display of reining in a II are superbly done but Jansons paradoxically soft-pedals the central scherzo. The first movement is almost indecently brisk. The overall timing is four minutes faster and in most places, Jansons lets it all hang out. Fast forward to Munich in 2007 and we find the conductor in a much altered state of Mahler It is a very fine account with allĭepartments of the orchestra demonstrating world-class quality. The Oslo concerts took place in March 2000. Version was published by Simax, a label which is not readily available in Canada.īrass Tacks: Both performances were recorded live. Incredibleīecause the release date for the present disc coincided in Europe with a competing issue of No 7 from the Oslo Philharmonic - conducted by Mariss Jansons. In the process, Jansons duplicated the First and Sixth and now, incredibly, the Seventh. Recorded six of the symphonies with four orchestras and five labels. If so, he is going about it in a damned odd way. Is unknown whether Mariss Jansons has designs on a complete cycle of the symphonies.

While the rate of production of new Beethoven boxes has not slackened, theġ50th anniversary of Mahler's birth in 2010 and the centennial of his death next year provide the extra incentive to unleash an expanding torrent of recording activity. Least a dozen Mahler cycles being pressed onto CDs in Europe from Liverpool to Moscow. Bambarger maintains that the recorded Mahler cycle has displaced Beethoven as the Grail for up and coming orchestral conductors. 7 - Mariss Jansons (Conductor) - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Hybrid SACD -Ĭycles in the Mist: Bradley Bambarger contributed an interesting essay entitled, 'Mahler: His Time Has Come Again' to the Nov/Dec issue

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