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BERLIOZ: LES NUITS D'ETE; MAHLER: SONGS (Bridge). The great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani's last recording renders almost palpable the feelings of yearning and fleeting gaiety, along with the elegiac beauty, that make these songs, and her art, imperishable...
...Festival in Austria, Masur is capable of drawing passionate, powerful playing from his musicians. Neither a disciplinarian nor one of the boys, Masur favors a let-us-reason- together approach that prizes loyalty and enthusiasm over virtuosity. Not surprisingly, his repertoire is centered on the classics from Mozart to Mahler, which he conducts with short punchy gestures, usually without a baton. In Leipzig he led as many as 90 performances a year, including a healthy dollop of new music, mostly commissioned from East German composers. Says Masur: "I always told our audiences, 'You read not only Goethe and Schiller...
...MAHLER: SYMPHONIE NO. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon). The young Lenny reintroduced Mahler; maestro Bernstein now leads the Concertgebou Orchestra in a re- examination of the composer's kaleidoscopic genius...
There is, of course, plenty of strangeness here: Gould rehearsing a children's choir while crouched in a pew, nothing visible but his hand; Gould serenading the elephants at the Toronto zoo by singing them Mahler at dawn. Yet at play within him was something deeper than mere oddity. Able to read music before he could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra presents its final concert of the term tonight with the world premeire of the Petrov violin concerto and Mahler's 5th Symphony. Tickets are available at Holyoke Center for $3, $5 and $7 or for $4, $6 and $8 at the door...