Mahler: Symphony No. 4

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this scrupulously prepared, gently radical take on a familiar score could well appeal to those not normally drawn to the composer...everything unfolds with seductive song-like grace...the bucolic... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

Release Date: 17th Jul 2006
Catalogue No: 93164
Label: Hänssler
Length: 52 minutes

Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Work length52:48

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Anu Komsi
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen (Live)

Track length15:09

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II. In gemächlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast (Live)

Track length8:34

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III. Ruhevoll, poco adagio (Live)

Track length19:41

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IV. Wir geniessen die Himmlischen Freuden. Sehr behaglich (Live)

Track length9:24

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This is the second Mahler symphony to be recorded by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Like the First, which appeared in 2005 to great critical acclaim, it embodies the historical performing practices such as orchestra size, seating, style and sound, which the RSO and I have put at the forefront of our work together. The most striking feature is of course the vibrato-free sound, not heard in a Mahler symphony perhaps, since Bruno Walter's live recording of the 9th with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1938.

This recording takes seriously Mahler's expectations for performance in his own lifetime. The orchestra size is of course laid down in the score, which itself is now well established. The seating used here however is different from many orchestras today, but accords with the normal layout around 1900. This is Mahler as he has not been heard since he originally wrote the work, and is an essential listening experience today!

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February 2011

this scrupulously prepared, gently radical take on a familiar score could well appeal to those not normally drawn to the composer...everything unfolds with seductive song-like grace...the bucolic woodwinds make their points without strain, quieter moments gently sweetened, never thickened, by the use of gut strings.

Mahler: Symphony No. 4

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