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General Category => Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions => Topic started by: stillivor on January 28, 2009, 10:26:02 PM
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Been playing M2 iunder Walter, googled Maureen Forrester, who sang in it, and turned up theis YouTube.
It's what she sang on the Walter - Urlicht.
And blow me down; the conductor is Glenn Gould, no less.
http://http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPKiuFmY4M&feature=related
Enjoy! !
Ivor
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Amazing.
Does this mean Glenn Gould conducted the symphony in its entirety?
John,
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Wow! I wonder when and where that was done, and how it was found. Is that really Glenn Gould? ???
Many thanks for providing it, Ivor.
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I'd guess it was on Canadian telly - both F. and G. were canadian. Given she was born 1930, I'd hazard it's late 60s.
<<YouTube>> ;)
Ivor
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I saw that video a short while back - yes, it is Gould. And I think it is actually '59 or '60, about the time that Gould and Forrester were starting to break out into the big times (maybe even earlier).
I saw/heard Forrester perform DLvdE with Dorati and the Washington National Symphony in the late '70's. She sang Der Abschied with just as much emotion and fervor as she does Urlicht in this video clip. That was the first and only time I have been moved to tears during a concert.
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I really like the complete "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" that has Forrester and Rehus (?), cond. by Felix Prohaska (something like that). It's on Vanguard. It might be out-of-print now. Not sure.
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The Gould/ForresterUrlicht performance was given at the 1957 Stratford (Ontario) Music Festival, and was released on Sony laser disc SLV 48 401 in 1992. The other movements of the symphony were not performed. During the previous summer at the same festival Gould had conducted Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon. Through much of his career he fancied himself a potential conductor and had plans near the end of his life to give up the piano entirely for a conducting career. In his very last recording of anything (July/September 1982), he conducted a daringly slow performance of the original version of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, available on Sony SK 46279.
Gould was quite a Mahler enthusiast, and said at one point (in his calculatedly provocative style) that he felt Mahler was at his best when dealing with the contrapuntal intricacies of things like the Eighth Symphony, and at his worst when setting Chinese poetry.
James
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Gould was quite a Mahler enthusiast, and said at one point (in his calculatedly provocative style) that he felt Mahler was at his best when dealing with the contrapuntal intricacies of things like the Eighth Symphony, and at his worst when setting Japanese poetry.
James
Japanese poetry? ??? Must be Chinese poetry...if he meant DLVDE :-[ :-X.
I watched the video and enjoyed Gould's conducting very much.
John,
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He did indeed mean DLvdE; I stupidly misquoted him. Message corrected. :-[
James
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Dear Mahlerians,
Is there anybody who happens to dislike Gould's conducting
Sure I don't mean his manual technique, but the result (as much as it could be separated from orchestra playing :))
Particularly the way he manages to perform the choral
Thank you