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...MAHLER: SYMPHONY No. 9 (Angel; 2 LPs). Mahler's orchestral masterwork, his last completed symphony, is played in the grand manner by the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli conducting. The first movement, as long as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, is full of fluctuating rhythms that move along with a tidelike pull. Barbirolli lets them ebb and flow, then swings vigorously into the dissonant dance movement and the coarse burlesque Rondo that mock the first floating dreams...
...MAHLER: SONGS FROM DBS KNABEN WUNDERHORN (Vanguard). In the 1890s, Mahler was so drawn to the German folk poems in the old anthology called The Youth's Magic Horn that he not only turned them into songs but turned the songs into symphonies. The texts are often grim or sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-Low Memorial Library, Broadway at 116th. A collection of Chinese art objects-ceramics, bronzes, jades and sculptures-is dominated by a half-ton Buddha head in stone, described by Art History Professor Jane G. Mahler as "one of the most important pieces ever to come out of China." Through June...
...MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 5 (Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic; Columbia, 2 LPs). Bernstein again shows his affinity for Mahler in this strong, youthful performance of the panoramic five-movement work sometimes called "The Giant." There are none of the songs that Mahler put in some of his other symphonies, but the instruments alone, as he used them, have eloquence to spare. Bernstein handles the long, playful scherzo with easy humor, changes moods in lightning flashes, and tears at the vitals of the dramatic sections. A milestone in the Mahler revival...
...LIED VON DER ERDE (Deutsche Grammophon) is Gustav Mahler's masterpiece. The song cycle is a rippling reflection of elegiac Chinese moods that now and then surges up to a torrential "Yes!" This version, with Mezzo Soprano Nan Merriman, Tenor Ernst Hafliger and Conductor Eugen Jochum leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra, even surpasses the excellent recording made by Merriman and Hafliger with the Concertgebouw sev en years...