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Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies - Kindertotenlieder - cd 04, 05 & 06 of 14 - Symphonies 3 & 6 - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Seiji Ozawa

19th Century Music | Orchestral Music | Choral Music | Vocal Music | Philips 470 871-2 (14-CD set) | 2002

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 3 zip files with the 10 tracks of cd's 4,5 and 6 (of 14) on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 126 page boxset booklet (in English, German, French), plus the box cover and front and back cover of the three cd's.

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The Box Cover:

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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.

The Symphony No. 3 was written between 1893 and 1896. In 6 movements, it is his longest piece and is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, with a typical performance lasting around ninety to one hundred minutes. The second, third and sixth movements were performed for the first time in 1897 conducted by Felix Weingartner, while the entire symphony had its first performance in 1902 conducted by the composer. The symphony, particularly due to the extensive number of movements and their marked differences in character and construction, is a unique work. The opening movement, grotesque in its conception (much like the symphony itself), roughly takes the shape of sonata form, insofar as there is an alternating presentation of two theme groups; however, the themes are varied and developed with each presentation, and the typical harmonic logic of the sonata form movement—particularly the tonic statement of second theme group material in the recapitulation—is replaced here by something new. The slow opening can seem to evoke the primordial sleep of nature, slowly gathering itself into a rousing orchestral march. A solo tenor trombone passage states a bold melody that is developed and transformed in its recurrences. Innovation is present everywhere in this movement, including its apparent length. At the apparent conclusion of the development, several solo snare drums "in a high gallery" play a rhythmic passage lasting about thirty seconds and the opening passage by eight horns is repeated almost exactly. The third movement quotes extensively from Mahler's early song "Ablösung im Sommer" (Relief in Summer). The fourth is a setting of Friedrich Nietzsche's "Midnight Song" from Also sprach Zarathustra, while the fifth, "Es sungen drei Engel", is one of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn songs.

The Symphony No. 6, sometimes referred to as the Tragische ("Tragic"), was composed between 1903 and 1904 (rev. 1906; scoring repeatedly revised). The work's first performance was in Essen, on May 27, 1906, conducted by the composer. It's classical in form (4 movements) and only orchestral, without use of voice. The tragic ending of No. 6 has been seen as unexpected, given that the symphony was composed at what was apparently an exceptionally happy time in Mahler's life: he had married Alma Schindler in 1902, and during the course of the work's composition his second daughter was born. It's a musicologist question the correct order of the 2nd and the 3rd movements, but the directors, in most part, prefer the scherzo before the andante. Alban Berg and Anton Webern praised it when they first heard it: for Berg it was "the only sixth, despite the Pastoral"; while Webern actually conducted it on more than one occasion.

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Track List

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

cd 1 (4 of 14) [52'33]

Symphony No.6 in A minor

[composed: 1903-04; First performance: 1906]

[1] I.Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig (23'40")

[2] II.Scherzo. Wuchtig (13'38")

[3] III.Andante moderato (15'06")

cd 2 (5 of 14) [64'46"]

[1] IV.Finale: Allegro moderato - Allegro energico (30'43")

Symphony No.3 in D minor

[composed: 1895-96; First performance of the complete symphony: 1902]

Part I

[2] I.Kräftig. Entschieden (33'54")

cd 3 (6 of 14) [63'36"]

Part II

[1] II.Tempo di minuetto. Sehr mäßig (9'18")

[2] III.Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne hast (16'42")

[3] IV.Zarathustras Mitternaschtslied. Sehr langsam. Misterioso (10'20")

[4] V.Es sungen drei Engel. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck (4'05")

[5] VI.Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden (23'00")

Jessye Norman, soprano ; Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Seiji Ozawa

Recorded: Symphony Hall, Boston, February 1992 (No.6), April 1993 (No.3)

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