Vienen grabándose de manera cada vez mas habitual toda clase de arreglos adaptaciones y transcripciones de las sinfonías de Mahler. La obra de Mahler es corta en número de obras y toda ella está de sobra servida de magníficas interpretaciones por batutas míticas. Quizás sea este uno de los pocos territorios del continente mahleriano que queden por llevar al disco.
Muchas de estas realizaciones se llevaron a cabo como alternativas para suplir la dificultad de organizar conciertos con las sinfonías originales, muy exigentes en cuantos a efectivos orquestales. Me he preguntado más de una vez en estos años de crisis porque no oímos más a menudo interpretaciones de estas adaptaciones en directo, teniendo en cuanta su mayor accesibilidad en términos de efectivos y por lo tanto, de presupuesto.
La versión que nos ocupa corre a cargo de unos interpretes desconocidos hasta ahora para mí, la Manchester Camerata dirigidos por Douglas Boyd, con la intervención en el movimiento final de la soprano Kate Royal.
Tengo que reconocer mi debilidad por la cuarta sinfonía. Fue mi puerta de entrada en Mahler y ya por eso a mí ha merecido la pena comprar este CD. Para menos incondicionales de la obra la pregunta puede ser ¿qué aportar esta lectura?, fundamentalmente poder escuchar voces o líneas melódicas que quedan escondidas en la masa orquestal de la versión original y que los que no somos músicos en ejercicio no podemos percibir, una textura más ligera de la obra que permite verla en su armazón.
En definitiva es una propuesta muy interesante y según para quien, puede ser más interesante adquirir este arreglo que la una enésima versión de la partitura original.

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A. Dymoke-Bradshaw

A good listen

2014年5月24日に英国でレビュー済み

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I first heard "mini Mahler" at the Edinburgh Festival in 2012. It is very refreshing and as a chamber piece one can hear the individual instruments with a clarity not obvious in the orchestral version. This is an excellent recording of it.

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Grady Harp

Intimate Mahler: A Refreshing Gift for Those who Love Mahler

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Think Mahler, think big - large orchestra, long symphonies, huge climaxes, emotional thunder, etc. For those who thrive on the joys of the music of Gustav Mahler this CD will be a welcome addition to the library. This version of Mahler's joyous Symphony No. 4 in G Major is a chamber setting transcribed in 1920 by Erwin Stein in response to Arnold Schoenberg's Society for Private Music Performances in Vienna, a symposium that introduced new works as well a piano versions of symphonies by composers including Bartok, Debussy, Reger, Stravinsky, and Ravel among others. In this series Mahler's Symphonies # 6 and #7 were presented in keyboard arrangements, while Erwin Stein was asked to arrange the Symphony No. 4 for a chamber orchestra. The result is a rare opportunity to hear all of the delicate inner voices of this symphony in a fresh light.

Conductor Douglas Boyd leads the Manchester Camerata in this delicate and effervescent performance of Stein's transcribed chamber orchestra setting. The instrumentation includes the piano as reinforcement for not only the string sections, but also for the winds, brass and percussion. The result is a gentle approach to the poetry and youthful feeling of this symphony. While some may miss the big climaxes that only a full orchestra can manage, the intimacy of, for instance, the 'Ruhevoll' 3rd movement is a hushed lullaby with greater clarity to the musical lines than we hear in the full orchestration. For the fourth movement 'Sehr behaglich', Kate Royal is the soloist for the 'Das himmlische Leben' and her voice is sweet, soaring, tender, enunciating the poetry clearly, and offering one of the finest interpretations of this music on record.

This is not meant to compete with the many fine recordings of this very popular Mahler symphony, but instead it is to augment the appreciation of the genius that was Mahler - especially the highly creative contrapuntal writing that often is buried in the full orchestral performances. Boyd, the Manchester Camerata, and Kate Royal have given us a rare jewel of a performance and for everyone who loves Mahler, this recording is a treasure! Grady Harp, April 08

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Casey

outstanding

2011年3月6日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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This is a great cd. The playing is clean. My only complaint is that it's not very exciting. But if you want to hear every note of this symphony in the chamber arrangement, this is it.

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Mr. Mark A. Meldon

Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Erwin Stein, and Musical Connections

2011年9月14日に英国でレビュー済み

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This is a wonderful CD and I have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone with a liking for Mahler in order to understand more clearly the compositional structures of his fourth symphony. Whilst clearly not having the "heft" of a full orchestral version, the chamber orchestra version given here by the Manchester Camerata stands up very well on it's own distinct merits. What is perhaps interesting is the genesis of this version and the ongoing musical connections down the years.

Arnold Schoenberg founded The Society for Private Musical Performance in Vienna to do just that; give performances of contempoary (and otherwise) music to an private member audience in order to avoid the constant interruptions he experienced in public performance. I think I'm right in saying that no applause was permitted. Today, I guess this would be a bit like joining a record club. One of Schoenberg's composition pupils pre-first world war was Erwin Stein (1885-1958), the grandchildren of whom are in line to the British throne.

Erwin Stein was asked by Schoenberg to prepare a chamber orchestra reduction of Mahler's fouth symphony in 1921, which he did, although the original manuscript has long been lost, presumably in World War Two. What is actually recorded here is a reconstruction of the reduction that was made in 1990 by Alexander Platt, so we are two steps away from the original work which is now "after Erwin Stein"! Never mind, Platt has done a sterling job.

Stein left Austria at the time of the Anschluss and ended up in London (eventually working for Boosey & Hawkes, the music publishers) and was a noted expert on Mahler and Schoenberg, Weber, et al., all of whom he knew personally. He and his wife had a daughter, Marion, who became a well-regarded pianist. She married Lord Harewood, with whom she had three children, the youngest of whom, Jeremy Lascelles, is CEO of Chrysalis Music (music publishing again) in London. Following a rather newsworthy divorce, Marion then married the Liberal politician, Jeremy Thorpe. So, through subsequent marriages, the grandchildren of Mahler's transcriber are in line to the British throne. That set of musical "connections" aside, I'll return to the recording!

The notes provided by Avie are not very clear about the forces used, but everything else about this CD is well-nigh perfect. The sound quality, especially noting that this is a "live" recording, is, frankly, ashtonishingly lifelike - one of the best "red book" CDs I have ever heard. The conductor, Douglas Boyd, has gone for clarity and the soloist, Kate Royal, has gone on to become one of the UK's leading singers.

In summary, this interesting "ghost" Mahler 4 is essential listening!

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