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Mahler Symphony No. 4 Bernstein Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam on 180g.
For his second fabled recording of Gustav Mahlers Fourth Symphony, conductor extraordinaire Leonard Bernstein employs boy soprano Helmut Wittek, violinist Jaap van Zweden and the unparalleled Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam in a refined yet vivid performance captured in 1987 at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
The only similarity with the CBS record is the relative closeness of the microphone placing, designed to give the woodwinds maximum impact. Bernstein is at what some will take to be his most mannered in parts of the scherzo, but here and everywhere else in the symphony his conducting tellingly arbitrates between energy and leisure; and there is an agreeable congruence between Mahlers written tempo directions and Bernsteins own inevitably personal feelings about the musics pulses.
In fine, this is Mahler shrewdly and sympathetically conducted by a fellow composerSo while you mull over the various alternativeslet me commend to you this original, ungimmicky, musically searching performance as a worthy addendum to any Mahler collection. Richard Osborne, Gramophone
Musicians:
Gustav Mahler (composer)
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Helmut Wittek (soprano)
Jaap van Zweden (violin)
Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam
Features:
Cut from the original masters at Cohearent Audio
Lacquer cut by Kevin Gray
Pressed at Pallas GmbH Germany
Recorded Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, June 1987
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