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Alexander Turco wrote:
>Will be attending a concert of the Beethoven Ninth "orchestrated by
>Mahler." Can anyone supply me with information on this orchestration.
>I've never heard of such a score and can't seem to find any information
>on it. Thanks.
More accurately dsecribed as, "reorchestrated by Mahler"
Mahler's revisions include both editing dynamics [mostly inaudibly
achieving a great deal of textual clarity and removing ambiguous notation]
to rescoring; the latter ranges from subtle reassignment of wind parts to
fairly obvious--most famously, adding the bass trombone to the bass line
at the recap of the first movement. They incorporate a lot of the
once-standard rewrites from the tradition of Wagner and Weingartner.
Possibly available on rental from UE, as are the Mahler edits for the
Schumann symphonies.
William Steinberg's Command LP version used this set of edits [available in
CD reissue?], as does a CD recorded in Eastern Europe by the enterpreneur
who puts together largescale choral concerts in NYC, and whose name I've
forgotten. Tibor...?
There is also in the literature a description of a famous Mahler
performance of the Ninth in which the B-flat 6-8 "alla marcia" section of
the finale [ultimately tenor and male chorus] began with winds, brass and
percussion off-stage, in the manner of the distant ensembles in his own
"Klagende Lied" and Second Symphony-but I can't recall if this is part of
his "standard" revision of the piece or another poetic idea attempted in
performance on some specific occasion.
May I enquire where this performance will take place and under whose
auspices?
Joel Lazar
Bethesda MD
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