GM work most appropriate to perform on May 18th?

[Toblacher]

I think the 2nd or the 9th.

Thoughts?

[Roffe]

Both M2 & M9 are excellent choices; the Amsterdam Concertgebouworkest will be playing dLvdE, which also is an appropriate choice on that very sad day, to say Farewell....Forever. I think I'll go for "Das Lied".

Roffe

[Fafner]

Abbado is performing LvdE and the Adagio from the 10th at Berlin...I'll be there, as there are no hints at the Lied being performed again at Lucerne. This will be the very first time he'll conduct the LvdE, having conducted only the 6th mov. a few (not many) times in the past.

[hrandall]

How about the 8th? Perhaps an unorthodox choice. But in Mahler's own words: ""Imagine the universe beginning to sing and resound...It is no longer human voices; it is planets and suns revolving."

Cheers,
Herb

[john haueisen]

I'd choose M2, for I feel that's what GM would want.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Abbado is performing LvdE and the Adagio from the 10th at Berlin...I'll be there, as there are no hints at the Lied being performed again at Lucerne. This will be the very first time he'll conduct the LvdE, having conducted only the 6th mov. a few (not many) times in the past.

The concert will be broadcasted live on the french-german TV ARTE .I've read that a DVD is expected.

[Zoltan]

M8. If you're going, go with a bang! And it was also his greatest triumph in his music.

[sperlsco]

How about the piece on which Mahler was working when he died...M10? 

The Houston Symphony is performing M10 Cooke this weekend.  I will be attending 2 of the 3 performances. 

[mahler09]

Das Lied would be my pick!

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Abbado is performing LvdE and the Adagio from the 10th at Berlin...I'll be there, as there are no hints at the Lied being performed again at Lucerne. This will be the very first time he'll conduct the LvdE, having conducted only the 6th mov. a few (not many) times in the past.

the live concert will be on the Digital Concert Hall.
http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/

[Roffe]

Thank you for the link. I'll be listening.

Roffe

[stillivor]

R.I.P. Gustav

Currently, I play the whole of the works in cycles. I happened to have reached No.2 [on the 10th cycle].

I'm also hoping to play No.10 just because, as said, it was what he was working on, and might have been somewhere in his unconscious this day one hundred years ago.

I'm just so grateful for his legacy.

Ivor

[Don]

The 10th of course and then the 4th.

I am a 10th fanatic so that was obvious, for some unexplained reason I just had to couple that with the 4th, perhaps his most gentle symphony after one of the more turbulent ones.

[hrandall]

I will report that I could not settle on just one - while working today I've listened to 2, 3, 10, 1, 8 and before sleeping am finishing up the 9th.

I'm curious how others have remembered Mahler today?

Herb

[Roffe]

I listened to the Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer dLvdE and watched the M2 from the Leipzig Mahler festival on the Internet.

Six symphonies in a day, Randall, I'm impressed. I can't remember listenening to more than 3.

Roffe