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General Category => Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions => Topic started by: sperlsco on August 27, 2009, 03:14:05 PM
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Soloists: Christine Brewer // Nancy Maultsby // Jason Grant // Wolfgang Schone // Nancy Gustafson // Mary Phillips // Anthony Dean Griffey // Jeanine De Bique
The samples sound eerily like his dreadfully slow Vienna performance. The Vienna performance had some nice singing (but a dreadful Mater Gloriosa), and even a good ending to Part II. The NYPO singing does not sound as good -- at least from the 30 second samples. I downloaded just the Chorus Mysticus track. One of the sopranos is absolutely dreadful in her entrance. The finale is taken very slowly all the way to the end and has a huge bass drum roll, cymbal crashes and decent tam-tam. I don't imagine I'll waste my money downloading the rest of the performance.
eMusic is no longer as good of a deal as it once was, although it is still cheaper than a CD. Previously it was a great bargain for most symphonies, since it cost one download for each movement of a symphony (unless it was multi-tracked). Now they charge 12 downloads per disc for most "name" commercial labels -- a practice that coincided with their addition of much of the Sony and RCA archives.