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General Category => Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions => Topic started by: David Boxwell on November 10, 2019, 03:31:14 PM
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Broadcast 8 Nov 2019. William Mival selects "best of" a very short list: I. Fischer; Boulez; Bernstein 61 & 87; Rattle; Haitink 06; and . . . Abbado 80.
Available to listen at www.bbc.co.uk
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Huh. That's sort of an interesting list. Rattle and Abbado? Haitink '06 and not his classic '66 or his excellent recent one with the BRSO?
I think it'd be fun to pick a Mahler 3 top five. It's always changing for me anyway. Here's my "best of" these days... more of a contemporary selection:
Á. Fischer, Chailly, Bernstein '87, Haitink '17, Salonen
Honorary mentions: Stenz, I. Fischer
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My top five favorites out of my vast collection - which includes many 'pirates' - would be Boulez/Vienna Phil.; Alan Gilbert/N.Y. Phil.; Jansons/B.R.S.O. (not his Concertgebouw one); Adam Fischer/Dusseldorf; Honeck/Pittsburgh.
If someone put a gun to my head and said I could only keep two, it would be Honeck/Pittsburgh for an sacd/cd hybrid, and Adam Fischer for a 'red book' cd. If they allowed me to keep just one 'pirate', it would be A. Gilbert/N.Y. Phil.
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Barry,
I have the Jansons/BRSO M3rd. What aspects of the recording do you like?
John
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Welllllllll, I would need to give it another listen. As I recall, it had the more 'rustic' quality that I like in Mahler 3 (in particular). Nothing sounded too polished or too slick. I thought the start of the scherzo was quite good (rustic woodwinds) and I thought the big brass chorale at the end of VI was very good as well.
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My current top M3's are as follows:
Asahina/OPO/Canyon
Abbado/BPO/DG
Scherchen/Leipzig 1960/Tahra
I like these mainly cause they are powerfully rustic, just what Barry was describing above.