Jump to content

What Classical Music Are You Listening To?


StarThrower

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 23k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • soulpope

    8097

  • Peter Friedman

    5098

  • Referentzhunter

    2824

  • HutchFan

    1215

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

2 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Kubelik has never convinced me as a Mahler conductor.

Proof that we all hear music differently.  ;) 

I love Walter and Horenstein and Bernstein and Barbirolli for Mahler.  But if I were forced to choose just one, it would be Kubelik.  

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

36 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Seems so middling to me.

Sure. I can understand why people might level that criticism. Horenstein is more taut and forceful than Kubelik. Bernstein is more glittering and angst-ridden. Walter nails the heavenly stuff and Gemütlichkeit thing. Barbirolli's Mahler is more humane. 

But this is what I like about Kubelik: To my ears, nobody has a better grasp of Mahler's "symphonic line."  When I listen to Kubelik's Mahler, the music has a coherence that I don't hear from anyone else.  Rather than jumping from episode to episode, there's a kind of through-line, a path.  Not that I'm reading the score. I'm talking about the vibe, the feeling of having traveled from one place in the beginning to another place in the end -- a sense of meaningful movement, of procession and continuity.  ... That's one reason why I love Kubelik's Mahler so much, probably the biggest one.

 

35 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

I'd make a big exception for his Das Lied with Waldemar Kmett, Janet Baker and the Bavarian Radio Symphony.

Absolutely!  For me, that's another desert-island Mahler disc.

 

Edited by HutchFan
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


×
×
  • Create New...