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Mahler: Symphony No. 4

~ Philharmonia Orchestra, Benjamin Zander
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  • Audio CD (1 Oct 2001)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Telarc
  • ASIN: B00005NSVK
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,299 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Benjamin Zander's Mahler series has been winning accolades and his Fourth is fully up to its predecessors. He takes an expansive view of Mahler's shortest, most accessible and sunniest symphony, caressing its plentiful melodies and capturing its serene mood. Zander, as always, pays close attention to Mahler's markings so, aided by Telarc's superb sonics, we hear details often bypassed in other recordings. The last movement, featuring a song set to a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, presents a child's view of heaven. Camilla Trilling sings it with the wide-eyed innocence demanded by the words and music, avoiding the common fault of so many recordings of a soprano who sounds too old, too knowing, or too sophisticated. If Zander's doesn't supersede versions by Kletzki, Szell, and Tennstedt, it is one of the best available for both sound and performance. Its attractiveness is greatly enhanced by a 79-minute bonus disc, an illustrated lecture by Zander that's hugely informative and entertaining, sure to enlighten even experienced Mahlerians. --Dan Davis

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Divine path to the heavenly life, 12 Nov 2006
By Nicholas Casley (Plymouth, Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
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I rarely award five stars, and I should point out that the five stars are for the performance rather than for the work itself (which I would give four stars).

Mahler's 4th was the first of his symphonies to which I was introduced and I have long considered it to be the least appealing in his magnificent symphonic output. It always seemed too sweet and sickly to me: too Viennese, with all those references to waltzes and contrived innocence. Zander's is the eighth version of this work in my collection and has proven to be the best. His commentary has highlighted its darker episodes and his interpretation of the beautiful third movement has forced me to re-appraise my previously held opinion of the frivolous nature of the work. In short, it can be profoundly moving, not only in the slow movement, but in the darkened scherzo and in the climax of the first movement's development.

The performance is faultless: the sound is wonderful. Camilla Tilling's shot at arousing my wonder in the finale hits home - it is not often that one hears a singer stretch herself so far and yet so naturally. (My disc came with Zander's commentary on the work as an extra CD, which includes an extract from a performance he gave in Vienna with a boy singing the soprano's part. A marvellous experience. Why has no-one recorded such a version before?)

To conclude, Zander's is the best version of this work I know, and I have no hesitation in recommending it as a five-star performance.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid version with bonus cd to boot, 23 Oct 2009
By JJA Kiefte "Joost Kiefte" (Tegelen, Nederland) - See all my reviews
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It took some persuasion to like and understand Mahler's fourth (although I had listened to some six or seven different performances) and it was Yoel Levi's recording on Telarc that finally won me over, although I was less than impressed with Mrs Von Stade's singing.
ANd then came along a Mr. Zander, a completely unknow entity to me, but if he were good enough to conduct the Philharmonia I though it worth a try. I found myself convinced not only of this particular Mahler symphony once more, but also of the interpretative capacities of said Mr Zander (in the meantime I have listened to many of his other discs and was not disappointed). I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's the best (is there ever a 'best' I wonder?) but it is certainly a very good one, helped in no small way by Camilla Tilling's singing. Her innocent, almost naïve singing must be heard to be believed. The disc with Zander's commentary on the work is an added bonus which I would not gladly have missed (don't be put off by ClassicsToday's sour comment on Zander's purported 'longwindedness').
To the novice a very worthwhile introduction to Mahler's soundworld, to the die hard fans an item that, like Boulez's Mahler discs, may be a stone of contention.
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