Gatti/LSO M7th 2014

[John Kim]

https://youtu.be/zPesvVrouIA

Gatti is very slow a la Klemperer, Maazel, but very well integrated. I find it fascinating and riveting^

John

[barryguerrero]

I'm hoping he'll make Mahler recordings in Dresden, but I'm not holding my breath - Gatti isn't under contract with any record label at the moment. Anyway, I'll say this again for the umpteenth time. I find a tremendous lack of imagination from these people who get paid sooooooo much money to wave a stick at an orchestra. When it comes to Mahler 7, either they do the who thing fast; the whole thing 'medium', or the whole thing slow. Few have the imagination to go slower in the first two movements, then go quicker in the last two movements.

[John Kim]

Gatti's timings are

26'31", 18'11",9'34" 13'29", 20'39"

[barryguerrero]

For me that's simply too all-over the map, for no real reason. Maybe if it were played by Dresden that way, I might be more drawn in by it. Gatti does have a habit of making his Mahler finales relatively long    .     .     .  again, for no real 'narrative' type reason.