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...especially a much too long visual riff on links between demagogic politics and celebrity culture -- and emotional payoffs are few, though one is a lollapalooza. But the failings are fixable. The high spots are thrilling. And even for an antirock curmudgeon like this writer, for whom music ended with Mahler, the show is never less than fun to hear and, especially...
...MAHLER REDUX...
...Gustav Mahler was a peripheral figure until the early 1960s, when Leonard Bernstein combined his directorship of the New York Philharmonic with a CBS recording contract and his own magnetism to translate a deep personal identification into an enduring Mahler revival. In 1985 Bernstein undertook to re-record the nine symphonies, plus the Adagio from the unfinished 10th, live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath...
Every major orchestra in the world performs Wagner, without whom nearly the entire history of 20th century music is incomprehensible, including the works of such great Jewish composers as Mahler and Schoenberg. Neither Mahler nor Schoenberg could be performed in Nazi Germany solely because they were Jews; should Wagner suffer, in principle, the same fate...
SCHOENBERG: GURRELIEDER (London). 2 vols. This quasi-oratorio is in many ways a summation and culmination of Romanticism: a magnificent music-drama about doomed love and transcendence, it echoes Wagner's Tristan and foreshadows Mahler's Eighth. Riccardo Chailly guides the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, a large chorus and superb soloists led by Susan Dunn and Siegfried Jerusalem in this infinitely expressive, dramatically gripping performance...