CLASSICAL Archives

Moderated Classical Music List

CLASSICAL@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: Tennstedt's Mahler
From:
Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 31 Mar 2001 09:03:07 +1000
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (14 lines) 
Tony Duggan replied to John Smyth, referring to Mahler's 8th:

>>but Tennstedt's handling of the final chorus coupled with the urgency
>>and exaltation of the coda is hard to forget in my book.
>
>Have you heard Horenstein in the final chorus?  I think you should.

Tony hardly needs my agreement with his opinions of Mahler, but
Horenstein's version of the 8th is just so powerful, so overwhelming, so
RIGHT, that I can't imagine anyone doing it better.  Buy it and be amazed!

Richard Pennycuick
[log in to unmask]

ATOM RSS1 RSS2