BR Klassik online broadcast of Rattle/BRSO M7

[barryguerrero]

Here you go. Very good sound quality! This is a rather breezy, zippy performance. The finale seems particularly good to me. However, this is basically the same M7 that Rattle has been giving throughout his career. I'm not hearing much in the way of new or different insights.

https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/gustav-mahler-siebte-symphonie-brso-rattle-konzert-100.html

[John Kim]

Barry,

Thanks for posting!

It is as fine a performance as his early recording available on EMI (with CBSO), volatile, breezy, with wildly but consistently variable tempi and dynamics, fabulously played.

I quite like it and anxiously look forward to its commercial release due next month^

John

PS This may be the BEST Mahler Rattle has done with BRSO. He nailed the piece^

[barryguerrero]

I just wish Rattle had stretched those chords a bit longer at the finale's FINAL peroration, like the way Haitink did with his BRSO recorded performance. I like there to be time for the deep bells and cowbells to bong away there, luxuriously at fortissimo! I personally like a bit more 'plumbing the darkness' in the first two movements as well. I find this a tad breezy.