Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'
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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedArleen Augér (soprano - Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Engineering
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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what’s truly unique is the marriage of low-level dynamics which inform so much of the work with absolute focus… Every Mahler One should make one reflect on some aspect of the work ’s originality;... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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It’s the most lightly, as in ineffably, characterised Mahler One I’ve heard since Kubelík’s. Everything flows, moves forward without rush…And when he needs to, Fischer pulls out the stops –... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Orchestral
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The biggest surprises of Mahler’s second, 1893 version of his first symphonic masterpiece…are the touches of orchestration later changed, usually for the better…Roth’s punchiness is probably... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
RecommendedDietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
Rafael Kubelík is essentially a poetic conductor and he gets more poetry out of this symphony than almost any other conductor who has recorded it. Although he takes the repeat of the first movement's... —
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Building a Library, July 2003, Runner-Up
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Building a Library, November 2001, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6, 9 & Lieder
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Hallé Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir John Barbirolli
Warner has done a superb job in the restoration of these classic recordings...The sound here is more natural, warmer, and better balanced than all earlier versions. Each disc is packaged in... —
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The Complete Mahler Symphonies
RecommendedSymphony No. 2: Lee Venora (soprano), Jennie Tourel (mezzo), Symphony No. 3: Martha Lipton (mezzo), Symphony No. 4: Reri Grist (soprano), Symphony No. 8: Erna Spoorenberg (Magna Peccatrix), Gwyneth Jones (Una Poenitentium), Gwenyth Annear (Mater Gloriosa), Anna Reynolds (Mulier Samaritana), Norma...
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Classical Album of the Year
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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The Eighth symphony, strongly cast and superbly recorded, is one of the finest in the catalogue. There’s a moment at the end of the first movement where each of the eight choral lines soars... —
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Eloquence in all departments was to be expected from Ivan Fischer and his hyper-alert Hungarians...What I hadn't anticipated was the risk-taking with a couple of crucial tempos. Fischer's orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th August 2012
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1
including original ‘Blumine’ movement
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
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... —
