Bychkov/CPO/Pentatone Mahler Third to be released on March 7th.

[John Kim]

You can listen to audio samples:

https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/mahler-symphony-no-3/

They sound terrific!

Total running time is 102 min.

John

[barryguerrero]

I think you're a tad more optimistic about this release than I am, John. But we won't know until we DO know. What I'm looking forward to in M3 is an eventual release from Paavo Jarvi/Zurich Tonhalle. I have the DVD of Paavo doing it with the Frankurt Radio S.O., and like it very much. And we already know the Tonhalle folks can really play the work.

[John Kim]

Barry

I LIKE Bychkov's earlier recording with WDR SO Koln very much. So, naturally I have a high expectation of this release. For one thing, timings of the two M3rds are very similar to each other.

John

[barryguerrero]

We'll see. At least the two offstage posthorn passages won't be quite as slow as they are on the Vanska recording. My Macal/Czech Phil./Exton M3 is coming from Berlin, and they've already warned that the postal service on it is going to take some time.

[barryguerrero]

It's up early on E-Classical. What I've heard so far, I think Bychkov might have hit this one right out of the park. I'm very pleasantly surprised. Even though the first movement stretches to 35 minutes, it just doesn't sound like it does. He seemed every detail correct across the entire first movement. My ONLY slight complaint have about the first movement, as I would have liked for the offstage snare drum solo - just before the recapitulation - to have been a tad less distant and a tad slower. That's pretty minor. I like how does the end of the symphony too. It's a little bit different, but I like it.