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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: So it's official: Pentatone issuing a 1-9 Bychkov Mahler box

« Last post by barryguerrero on February 03, 2026, 06:07:20 PM »

Right, and when they give you extra tracks for the Finale, I skip over the slow and quiet choral part anyway. It always sounds the same: a bunch of people singing slow and quietly. It's a lot of unison singing as well.

I'm sure there are choir people who the same thing in reverse: "I skip over all the loud orchestral parts, because it always sounds the same: loud and orchestral."

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: So it's official: Pentatone issuing a 1-9 Bychkov Mahler box

« Last post by erikwilson7 on February 03, 2026, 02:39:07 PM »

Bychkov does something similar to Chailly's RCO recording: The first four movements are typical pacing, but the finale is extra long. If there's any movement in the M2 that ought to be stretched out, it's that one.

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: So it's official: Pentatone issuing a 1-9 Bychkov Mahler box

« Last post by barryguerrero on February 03, 2026, 04:17:19 AM »

Yeah, but that M2 doesn't sound real slow to me. Anyway, I'm hoping symphonies 6 through 9 don't sound real slow as well.

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: So it's official: Pentatone issuing a 1-9 Bychkov Mahler box

« Last post by erikwilson7 on February 02, 2026, 02:19:29 PM »

I'm looking forward to hearing these. If I'm being nitpicky, these timings are far too long for my taste aside from the 7th. I should've seen it coming when the 2nd was also 87 minutes!

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: So it's official: Pentatone issuing a 1-9 Bychkov Mahler box

« Last post by barryguerrero on February 02, 2026, 10:59:52 AM »

So only M3 and M8 are on two discs. M9 is 87 minutes long!

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: So it's official: Pentatone issuing a 1-9 Bychkov Mahler box

« Last post by John Kim on January 31, 2026, 07:45:42 PM »

Japan's HMV store lists Bychkov/CPO/Pentatone Mahler box set available for sale on 4/10. It also lists timings of each symphony, especially the 6th~9th:

M6=85:56
M7=78:39
M8=24:54 (Part I.), 60:18 (Part II.)
M9=86:57

https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Mahler-1860-1911_000000000019272/item_Symphonies-Nos-1-9-Semyon-Bychkov-Czech-Philharmonic-11CD_16636710

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: Tonkunstler ticket office informed me my M8 can't get through the postal system!

« Last post by John Kim on January 30, 2026, 01:59:48 AM »

Including S&H it will cost $57! No way, Jose!

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: Tonkunstler ticket office informed me my M8 can't get through the postal system!

« Last post by John Kim on January 29, 2026, 11:47:03 PM »

jpc.de now has it on sale for EURO 27.99.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/yutaka-sado-tonkuenstler-orchester-mahler-sinfonie-nr-8/hnum/12534879

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: Tonkunstler ticket office informed me my M8 can't get through the postal system!

« Last post by barryguerrero on January 29, 2026, 02:30:51 AM »

jPC in Germany eventually gets hard copies to sell as well. They always come much later than the downloads. They had a 'meet and greet' signing of CD's with Sado at the Tonkunstler's office, so that's why they had hard copies so soon. It was his last recording with the orchestra.

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Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions / Re: Jurowski/LPO/LPO M9th - my short review

« Last post by barryguerrero on January 29, 2026, 01:43:44 AM »

Under "Track Package" it just says that they'll e-mail me with an update when they have a better idea of when it could ship. I think 'release dates' don't mean much in terms of hard copies these days. I think it pertains more to downloads, and when something can be heard at a streaming service. However, the Jurowski M9 is already at Spotify, so that shoots that theory. I'm not in a big hurry to have it.