Mahler 2 next Sunday

[Chuck Nessa]

Buffalo Philharmonic

[soulpope]

29 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Buffalo Philharmonic

Pls share your impressions thereafter ....

[Gheorghe]

I don´t know about classical music, but I think me and my wife was some years ago at a place heard some stuff by Mahler,  and in that place there was only classical music in the shelves and when it was spinned that kind of Mozard or Bach it sounded more boring for our ears, but that somebody spinned a stuff called Mahler and imediatly it attracted our attention as some music that is much more interesting for our ears.  

It sounded like if Mahler was the "Charles Mingus" of classical music, while the before mentioned composers where the "Oscar Peterson´s and Errol Garner´s" or worse still "Dave Brubeck´s"  of classical music. 
 

I think there was another guy who was strong, I never heard him, but one of my youth fellows who played percussion told me that "he had heard Bruckner" and said that "Bruckner was the ultimate Rocker of his time, because he just did it, he didn´t give a shit for conventional things.,,,,," 
I had told that my fatha and he said, it sounds funny what your friend said, but there is some truth in it....

Edited May 29 by Gheorghe

[JSngry]

Mahler live is the right thing to do!!!

[Rooster_Ties]

I’m probably told this before, but since nothing’s stopping me…

Other than Mahler 1, which I heard early in college (maybe my very first symphony, come to think)… the first Mahler I heard as a slightly more seasoned listener in my late 20’s was #5 and then #4. And being utterly mystified by all the constant shifting tonality and chromaticism — and it just made no sense to me at all (I felt perpetually lost the entire time).

I was also in the Kansas City Symphony Chorus at the time, and a year later we were part of a huge production of Mahler 8 (in our case, the symphony of about 650-700, iirc).

Preparing and rehearsing Mahler 8 — with its huge double choir, often split into 24 independent parts — also made little sense to me… UNTIL we started putting everything together, and a few lightbulbs started clicking for me.  And the week of rehearsals with the symphony and the performances, I really finally felt like I sorta half-got what I was hearing.

A then, thereafter, the first couple Mahler symphonies I heard suddenly sorta “made sense” (6 and 7, iirc).

After that I quickly started buying recordings — including the duo-piano arrangements of Mahler 6 & 7 by Zemlinsky and Casella — and Edwin Stein’s 1920’s small chamber arrangement of #4 (for like 13 instruments, iirc) — and I’ve been a fan every since.

But, it really took singing 8, at least for me, to flip that switch.

 

Edited May 30 by Rooster_Ties

[Hoppy T. Frog]

Did Faletta conduct?