Mahler
Mahler: Symphony 3 (High Definition Tape Transfers)
A classic performance in a never-before-heard revelatory recording [NB]
Mahler: Symphony No 8 (BIS)
Not a library choice but there’s a lot going for this recording of the Eighth [JQ]
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 5, 7 & 8 (Pristine Audio)
Revelatory Boult in Mahler from the archives [LD]
My Soul, What Fear You? (King’s College, Cambridge)
A fascinating Lieder recital [JQ]
Mahler: Symphony No 8 (BIS)
Vänskä’s performance of Symphony of a Thousand; a rave review [EJW]
Mahler Pioneers (SOMM)
This release will be of great interest to all Mahler devotees [JQ]
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Deutsche Grammophon)
(Déjà Review) In playing and interpretation it takes its place among the finest [TD]
Na’ama Goldman (mezzo-soprano): Legata (Solo Musica)
A fascinating new voice in a programme tied to her cultural heritage but with universal appeal [GF]
Mahler: Symphony No 8 (BIS)
A stunner of a Mahler Eighth, one of the best since Solti’s classic account [RMo]
Reger: Requiem; Mahler: Orchestral songs (Capriccio)
A movingly immersive experience [MP]
Bella Adamova (contralto) There is home (Supraphon)
A superb recital of art songs, all of which perfectly suit her crystal-clear voice [SA]
Mahler: Symphony No.2 (Signum Classics)
Not the most “dangerous” or consistently inspired interpretation but so much of it exhibits elegance, beauty and restraint [RMo]
Mahler: Symphony No 1 (Pentatone)
A recording in which those who have been following the Bychkov cycle can invest with confidence [JQ]
Editing Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony
An interview with Dr Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs by Lee Denham
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Naxos Historical)
(Déjà Review) Spiritual engagement of the profoundest kind [JW]
Schubert & Mahler: Symphonies (Orfeo)
(Déjà Review) As a piece of history in sound I found these performances fascinating and very enjoyable [TD]
Mahler Symphony No. 7 (BR Klassik)
Haitink’s late trudge through Mahler’s Song of the Night [LD]
Entartete Musik (Antarctica Records)
Powerful, moving music beautifully performed and recorded let down by abject documentation [NB]
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Oehms Classics)
Another fine but essentially redundant issue in this Mahler series [RMo]
Mahler: Lieder (Signum Classics)
Followers of Dame Sarah Connolly will no doubt derive a lot of pleasure from this issue, but I wish she had recorded it a couple of years earlier [GF]
Mahler: Symphony 9 (Dutton)
(Déjà Review) Anyone interested in the history of this symphony needs to have at least one version of this recording [TD]
Otto Klemperer (conductor): The Remastered Edition (Warner Classics)
Klemperer consolidated; his full Warner legacy in best-yet transfers [JW]
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (BIS)
A very good central interpretation, well played and very well recorded [RWe]