Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection")
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Composer: Gustav MahlerConductor: Pierre Boulez
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Allegro Maestoso
- Andante Moderato. Sehr Gemachlich
- In Ruhig Fliessender Bewegung
- 'Urlicht' Sehr Feierlich, Aber Schlicht
- Im Tempo Des Scherzo. Wild Herausfahrend-'Aufersteh'n'
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Free Music Review: Strongly Minimalistic Mahler...
Hit: 5 Stars
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Boulez is Earth's greatest living conductor. He's expert with Modernism and later-Romanticism.
Certainly he would be in any list of the top-5 Mahler conductors.
I love this recording not least because it features favorite soprano Christine Sch?fer. Too, it's TT:80.5mins on one disc is very pleasing.
The controversy of this Boulez realization lies in his Minimalistic approach with regards to texture and volume. I believe Boulez believes that Mahler's text has enough inherent texture and volume, which renders additional gestures unnecessary. Boulez is trying to give us a bare reading of the text itself--and as his countryman Derrida argues, "There is no outside to the text ['Il n'y a pas de hors texte']."
Boulez' approach works wonderfully. Yet, some may prefer Bernstein's more effusive reading.
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") Poster
This Mahler two is very odd, indeed. Boulez's way with this composer has always been transparent and vaguely clinical, but here, though details are exquisite and everything is polished and beautifully played, he has managed to drain much of the power from the work. From the very start---those low string grumbles---we feel as if drama is secondary, and that feeling does not abate as the work goes on. What is normally heart-wrenching is here matter-of-fact: the great final moments are preceded by an low-volume organ and the brass and chorus play and sing with what I can only call "reserve" or a "matte finish" when brilliance, thrust, and great brightness are called for. I can't imagine what Boulez was thinking about this apocalyptic work when he opted to deliver a mild performance of it. Soloists are excellent, as is all the singing and playing, but this will leave you wanting to hear Mahler's Second Symphony in a truly searing reading (in which case you should try Leonard Bernstein's on Sony). --Robert LevineClassical Music CDs
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