CD coming of van Zweden/Dallas S.O. M3

[barry guerrero]

This received rave reviews from Scott Cantrell. You can hear the whole performance at the DSO's own website. The CD's will be released to retail on March 11 and I plan to buy one. The awesome principal trombone of the N.Y. Phil., Joe Alessi, plays principal on this recording! (he's the outrageous trombone soloist on the Bernstein/DG M3, as well as the Maazel and Alan Gilbert M3 recordings [pirates]). I think this should be very good - I very much like the van Zweden/Dallas S.O. M6.

https://www.mydso.com/mahler3


http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Symphony-No-Kelley-OConnor/dp/B01AKUNOHK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1454835356&sr=1-1&keywords=mahler+3+van+zweden+dallas


http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/arts/headlines/20150521-classical-music-dso-closes-classical-season-with-stunning-mahler-third-symphony.ece

[ChrisH]

The awesome principal trombone of the N.Y. Phil., Joe Alessi, plays principal on this recording! (he's the outrageous trombone soloist on the Bernstein/DG M3, as well as the Maazel and Alan Gilbert M3 recordings [pirates]).

The Maazel and Gilbert recordings are available from HDtracks.com

I will be grabbing this disc. Love me some Joe Alessi. I'd also be curious to hear Thomas Rolfs actually play a posthorn.

[James Meckley]

Did you catch this tidbit in Scott Cantrell's Dallas Morning News review of the concert?

"Muted trumpets lent savage snarls, but elsewhere, unmuted, gleamed over the orchestral mass. The mellow sound of the offstage posthorn, a valveless horn actually specified in the score, was supplied by Thomas Rolfs." [italics added for emphasis]

Of course—as most here know—the passage in question can't be played on a valveless instrument, posthorn or otherwise. Mahler's original manuscript specifies a military-style flugelhorn (valved), but he switched to a valved B-flat posthorn in the first published edition because he was afraid the typical orchestral player of the day wouldn't have access to a military flugelhorn.

James

[barry guerrero]

Indeed, there are posthorns with three rotary valves. You can see one clearly on the Bernstein/VPO M3, and on the P. Jarvi/Frankfurt R.S.O. M3 as well. I've never liked the sound of it played on a flugelhorn. That's just me.