No Mahler recordings but they selected the following two:
ANTON BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 7
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
CSO Resound 901 704(CD)
http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=11309 This disc answers the musical question: What happens when the inmates start running the asylum? Many orchestras are now producing their own recordings by some means or other, and as you might expect the results have been mixed. This new Bruckner Seventh, though, is an unqualified triumph, a glorious performance by a conductor and orchestra intimately familiar with the idiom, working at the top of their form. If the climax of the Adagio doesn’t send a shiver down your spine, you’re probably deader than Bruckner.
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (arr. Mahler); Genoveva Overture
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Decca 475 8352(CD)
http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=10822 Yes, the “major labels” still exist, and still manage to let their “major artists” make a serious classical recording now and then. This is certainly one of them, and you simply have to buy it because not only is it wonderful (and far more interesting than Chailly’s earlier, “normal” Schumann symphony recordings), but if you don’t care then why should these former industry giants bother at all?
Uhm...I shoud give it a try to the Haitink/CSO B7th....but the SACD version is way too expensive.
John,