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Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in February 2006, the next disc in Signum s series of live orchestral recordings with the Philharmonia features the late Sir Charles Mackerras conducting Mahler s Symhpony No.4. The concert was a memorable one, as this review of that concert demonstrates: This performance was inspired and interesting ... Setting off at a no-nonsense, fastish speed, Mackerras s appreciation of the numerous changes of tempos was a miracle of refined music-making that enhanced the rustic joys of the first movement. What impressed so much was the innate humanity of this music that in other hands can come across as insincere. Numerous details were bought out in the music, not least gurgling bassoons, clarinets suggestive of birds, and flutes that effortlessly floated above the general melee. Each movement received wonderful care for the sentiment that lies behind the notes; the slow movement in particular was of a poise and serenity that was truly touching. The singing of Sarah Fox in the finale embellished the entire sense of naturalness that was enshrined in this memorable rendition, a triumph for the partnership of the Philharmonia Orchestra, on riveting form, and the venerable Mackerras. ClassicalSource.com
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Mackerras Mahler 4
30 Sep 2011
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We don't often think as Mackerras as a Mahler conductor but I have a fine BBC recording of his Mahler 6th. and I'm sure many more of his Mahler concerts will now be unearthed. In the early 1950s one of the first pieces of classical music to grab my young attention was the Mahler 4th. symphony along with Furtwangler's Tchaikovsky 6th. The Mahler still remains one of my great loves. Over the years I have recordings (mainly LP) of Kletzi, Szell, Klemperer, Karajan, Britten, Barbirolli, Mackerras and Kubelik. Mackerras is therefore up against formidable competition. Two recordings for me now stand out ; the Britten and Mackerras. As an Aussie my sympathies are with Charlie. Glowing performance, fine recording and sympathetic soprano. And yet...Paul Kletzi, a great reading) probably now unknown and unremembered.
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