Petrenko/Bavarian State Orch. Mahler 7th CD to be released.

[ChrisH]

I agree, Barry, it's very rhythmically incisive. It kind of reminds of the two Darlington Mahler recordings with Duisburg, he is very clean and definite with his rhythms in his traversal of the 5th and 6th.

The scherzo sounds quite a bit like Zinman, to my ears.

[barryguerrero]

I listened to Darlington's M6 on Spotify and liked it very much.

[John Kim]

hi folks,

So, how do you like this new M7th? I listened to only the first two movts and my impression was that it sounds similar to Abbado/CSO/DG version.

John

[erikwilson7]

For me it was good-not-great. If I wanted a M7 that were this fast then I’d still stick with Stenz/Gürzenich.

[John Kim]

Erik,

Check my message.

John

[barryguerrero]

For me, the lack of bells at the end - both deep and cow - is a real turn-off. Surely they had enough rehearsal time to address that issue. For something that's fast from start to finish, I'll take one of the old Kondrahin ones, or the recent Alexandre Bloch one on Atma. The playing isn't as strict and discipline, but I think it's a bit more interesting. For me, from a purely overall narrative standpoint, Vanska gets it right.