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There are not many outright disappointing recordings of this most joyful symphony of Mahler. I was curious how the German Argentinian conductor Michael Gielen would come across. By reputation he has been a specialist in the second Viennese school of composers such as Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. He shares with his contemporary Pierre Boulez a reputation for clarity. So, would this be a performance in which all the notes and instrumental lines stand revealed? Yes, indeed, it is. Would there also be lyricism, narration, and appreciation of the sonorous splendor and structure in the score beyond the printed notes, qualities that some exponents of musically complex scores downplay in the pursuit of clarity and light? I find all of that here as well.
Comparing this performance with Reiner CSO, Bernstein Amsterdam, Gatti RPO, Zander Telarc, I prefer Gielen. He captures the score brilliantly and is abetted by detailed but atmospheric sound in a beautiful, burnished acoustic. Gielen heeds and gives voice to all of Mahler's feelings, his joy, angst, tenderness, doubt, fearfulness, humor, spookiness, innocence, and exaltation. This performance really gives us the best of all possible worlds. The soprano soloist in the fourth movement is very good if not the best ever recorded performance, but there is nothing distracting in the performance that on second or subsequent hearings would wear poorly, as is the case with the Reiner or Bernstein recordings.
The Schreker "Prelude" is a wonderful bonus and strikes me, after several hearings, as one of the very best late romantic works I had never heard about until this disc came by. I would put it on a par with almost anything by Richard Strauss, and it projects an ominous atmosphere not unlike the latter's opera Elektra.
In sum, highly recommended. Gielen has risen in my estimation, through this recording and others of music from Beethoven to Schoenberg, as an enlightening and musical presence on the podium, one who delivers story, beauty, and clarity. The orchestra lacks nothing in tonal splendor or virtuosity.
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