Mahler: Symphony No. 1: including original ‘Blumine’ movement

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Everything about the dewy dawn of this Mahler One is perfect...But as the hero...steps into the sunshine, the effect of the airless, in-your-face strings is rather oppressive...the point and... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: LPO0070
Label: LPO
Length: 60 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'

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Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recording Venue: Live recording, Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Langsam. Schleppend - Immer sehr gemächlich

Track length15:57

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II. Blumine. Andante allegretto

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III. Kräftig bewegt, doch night zu schnell (Ländler Scherzo)

Track length8:16

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IV. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen

Track length10:17

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V. Stürmisch bewegt

Track length19:33

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Favourites, Gustav Mahler

James rifles through the huge amount of outstanding Mahler performances on disc, and offers his selection of the very best.

Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London on 4 December 2010.

Mahler’s First Symphony: the opening chapter of his spiritual autobiography. And the music itself seems to awaken – emerging from hushed strings and woodwind cuckoos into its stride, marching forth, stamping towards an eerie realisation of a nursery rhyme and arriving at a final, blazing affirmation of confidence.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in this live 2010 concert performance including the Symphony’s original second movement, ‘Blumine’.

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July 2013

Everything about the dewy dawn of this Mahler One is perfect...But as the hero...steps into the sunshine, the effect of the airless, in-your-face strings is rather oppressive...the point and spirit of the finale are dazzling, the tempo changes masterly throughout.

June 2013

an undeniably fresh and often startling performance...Jurowski 'hears' everything but better yet the reasons for everything. His precipitous way with tempo contrasts creates moments of high drama in the outer movements...if ever there was a case for wanting the roar of applause, this is it.

30th July 2013

This is an extraordinarily sensitive and nuanced account which eschews the temptation to stick to the sunny-side and run blithely through the score. There are frequent, telling adjustments in the phrasing which never sound fussy or applied...I look forward to more of Jurowski's Mahler with the LPO; this recording is a triumph.

June 2014

A radiant, live performance...I can't think of another recording where the horns sound so joyously jubilant. Jurowski also reinstates Blumine, the symphony's original second movement which Mahler deleted after the first few performances.

2nd June 2013

Jurowski’s vivid reading...announces its intentions early on with the clarinet’s startlingly physical cuckoo call, and is exceptionally faithful to the Berliozian separation of timbres that was Mahler’s response to the blended textures of Austro-German music.

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