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Bruno Walter’s Mahler: The Early New York Recordings
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Westminster Choir, Bruno Walter
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Re-issue of the Month
Rhetoric and searing drama charge the first movement with unprecedented levels of intensity...As to the closing minutes, no performance in my experience quite equals them for a sense of unbridled...
Bruno Walter’s Mahler: The Early New York Recordings
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Westminster Choir, Bruno Walter
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Re-issue of the Month
Rhetoric and searing drama charge the first movement with unprecedented levels of intensity...As to the closing minutes, no performance in my experience quite equals them for a sense of unbridled...
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This account of the “Resurrection” is notably more rhetorical and dramatic than Walter’s several later recordings.
Bruno Walter had a missionary zeal for Mahler’s multidimensional music.
These are two previously unreleased recordings.
Contents and tracklist
- New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 25 October 1942
- Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall
Excerpt,Mahler:
Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Work length22:05
This work is only available as an album download.
- Nadine Conner, Mona Paulee
- Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 25 January 1942
- Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall
I. Allegro maestoso
Track length22:05
This track is only available as an album download.
- Nadine Conner, Mona Paulee
- Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 25 January 1942
- Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineDecember 2012Re-issue of the Month
December 2012
Rhetoric and searing drama charge the first movement with unprecedented levels of intensity...As to the closing minutes, no performance in my experience quite equals them for a sense of unbridled exhilaration, the Westminster Choir singing their hearts out like no other on disc. It'll likely move you to tears and I have no hesitation whatever in naming this the pre-eminent 'historic' Mahler Second
26th August 2012
The notion that Bruno Walter’s Mahler was “soft-centred” used to be a commonplace of English criticism...These [performances], previously unissued and taken from broadcasts from Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1942, confirm that his approach was anything but soft. They bristle with fierce energy and whiplash playing. No 1 is particularly impressive.
