This recording is very special indeed. the LPO are on excellent form for a conductor they rightly adored. The frisson from this live music making is extra-ordinary. it may be nothing like as good a recording as some of the more modern versions but the sound is fine and it's the music that counts not the sonic spectacle. Tennstedt takes you on a journey with him, he makes you feel the emotion of this very emotional symphony like no other and the experience is shattering. There are probably half a dozen more proficient performances - Gergiev, Janssons, Tilsson Thomas etc. but none of them touch Tennstedt for his ability to move mountains. I foolishly didn't buy this when EMI initially released it and have had to buy the Japanese transfer which is not cheap. it is an excellent transfer and worth every penny.
Pas d'erreur, il s'agit de deux disques qui vous font progressivement basculer vers l'abîme... Abîme cataclysmique dans un tempo plutôt lent (ça me rappèle l'autre version exceptionnelle de cette symphonie dirigé par Sir John Barbirolli). Il s'agit bien de la version du 4 et 7 novembre 1991 donnée par l'orchestre philarmonique de Londres dirigé par ce grand chef mahlèrien, qu'était Klaus Tennstedt, au royal festival hall de Londres. L'orchestre donne tout ce qu'il a dans le ventre et le résultat est parfait avec un sentiment "merveilleusement" angoissé puis cataclysmique. En plus la prise de son est admirable (Keith Wilson) et remarquablement remastérisée par le japonais Yoshio Okazaki. Deux disques disques pour l'éternité... Merci monsieur Tennstedt.
5つ星のうち4.0Tennstedt live in 1991 - his best Mahler Sixth
2008年2月1日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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First, a consumer warning: The reviewer above identitifes this as Tennstedt's 1991 live Maahler Sixth as remastered in Japan, but when I ordered it from Amazon Marketplace, I received the 1983 studio recording instead, which is readily available, and much cheaper, in EMI's box set of the Mahler symphonies. It turns out that Japan EMI uses the same cover art, so it's easy to get the two confused. Be sure to check with your vendor.
As for the performance, this Sixth is more daring and extreme in its tempo shifts than what Tennstedt did in the studio. Hair-pin curves appear throughout the journey, so if you are a Mahler literalist, favoring Szell and Chailly, for example, Tennstedt's wild and woolly ways are likely to irritate you. He's particularly willful in the Scherzo, which is here placed as the second movement, creating a meancing world implied by Mahler's score yet not explicitly called for. The elegaic Andante is given a startling degree of visceral impact.
I like so-called interventionist conducting and found a great deal if imaginaiton and excitement in what Tennstedt does. After all, Mahler himself was such a conductor, as was his early advocate Mengelberg. Yet as always with extremists, the effect was probably more powerful and convincing in the concert hall than it is on CD -- will repeated hearings wear out the novelty? Only time will tell. The remastered sound is clear but bottom-heavy. The London Phil. plays considerably better than they did in the studio, where I found their execution lackluster.
In all, of the three Mahler Sixths that I've heard from Tennstedt (the other one being a muzzy live recording on the Memories pirate label), this is the most individual and therefore the best.
P.s. 2014 - Since this EMI release is hard to find, enthusiasts can get another wonderful live Sixth under Tennstedt from the LPO website.
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