Mahler 1-3 with Maazel on Signum (?)

[barry guerrero]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Lorin-Maazel-Philharmonia-Orchestra/dp/B00G7S8OBQ

Has anybody given this a spin yet? Just going by the timings that Amazon provides, Maazel is still among the slowest Mahler conductors out there. Better sound this time, perhaps. For the Philharmonia, this must feel a bit like revisiting Sinopoli.

How much success does Signum feel they will have with this? Wouldn't most people who take Maazel's Mahle seriously, already have either purchased the Vienna Phil. box on Sony (you should see the booklet), or collected the N.Y. Phil. cycle with downloads?

[barry guerrero]

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/mahler/concerts

Is this where Signum is gettting the recordings from: Maazel's cycle in 2011? If the tenor is decent, the M8 might be good. It would be the first recording of M8 from RFH since they've reworked the acoustics there.

http://classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=9593

I don't know if this is a good sign or not, but according to both reviews, one of the double basses collapsed after (or during) tenor Stefan Vinke's delivery of "blicket auf". This next review would suggest that we're hearing the same-old Maazel - maybe even worse.

http://boulezian.blogspot.com/2011/10/philhamoniamaazel-mahler-symphony-no8-9.html