Berliner Philharmoniker featuring Jascha Horenstein – Mahler Sympohony No. 5 live conducted by Jascha Horenstein (Live HD Mastering 2024) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker featuring Jascha Horenstein – Mahler Sympohony No. 5 live conducted by Jascha Horenstein (Live HD Mastering 2024) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:07 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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For many years it was assumed that no recordings existed of Horenstein conducting Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, but in the last few years no less than three have surfaced: with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Goteborg Symphony Orchestra, and this one with the Berlin Philharmonic, recorded live during the 1961 Edinburgh Festival.

Horenstein first conducted Mahler’s Fifth in Berlin in 1927 with the Berlin Philharmonic. That concert brought him his first really big success as a young conductor, with extremely favorable reviews from highly respected musicians and critics such as Walter Schrenk (“Horenstein is the most significant and by far the most gifted of our young generation of conductors”), Klaus Pringsheim, formerly an assistant of Mahler’s (“he reminds one of the young Klemperer who, it is said, reminded his audiences of the young Mahler”), and Rudolf Kastner, who had attended the world premiere of the Fifth Symphony conducted by Mahler in 1904 (“Since then I have rarely heard the piece as I did now… Horenstein is one of the most remarkable conductors we have encountered in recent years and has, like few others, a most particular affinity for Mahler’s music”). It was this concert that secured Horenstein’s reputation as one of the finest interpreters of Mahler’s music by a new generation of conductors that had no personal contact with the composer, and it must have been with these memories in mind that he approached the performance in Edinburgh presented here.

Of the three extant recordings of the symphony conducted by Horenstein, the Berlin Philharmonic performance is by far the most dramatic, a white-hot, tension-filled, powerfully driven presentation that confirms Horenstein’s widely recognized and unrivaled authority in this repertoire.

Tracklist:
1-01. Berliner Philharmoniker – Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: 01 Trauermarsch. In gemessenen Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt (Live HD Mastering 2024) (13:10)
1-02. Berliner Philharmoniker – Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: 02 Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz (Live HD Mastering 2024) (16:19)
1-03. Berliner Philharmoniker – Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: 03 Scherzo kräftig, nicht zu schnell (Live HD Mastering 2024) (19:09)
1-04. Berliner Philharmoniker – Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: 04 Adagietto. Sehr langsam (Live HD Mastering 2024) (09:38)
1-05. Berliner Philharmoniker – Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: 05 Rondo-Finale. Allegro (Live HD Mastering 2024) (16:26)
1-06. Broadcast Speaker – Broadcast announcement: 06 Broadcast Speaker (Live HD Mastering 2024) (00:22)

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