Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021) SACD ISO
Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:28:05 minutes | 6.12 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric
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Anna Larsson, Johan Reuter, Svenska Kammarorkestern & Thomas Dausgaard – Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Alto Rhapsody & 6 Schubert Songs (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:26 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
Thomas Dausgaard, the enormously talented conductor, continues here with his quest for recording the mainstream symphonic repertoire with an orchestra, smaller than the usual today. His journey has become a considerable success. What one possibly misses in string sound “thickness” is more than well compensated for by the added transparency, and the almost chamber-music-type listening by the orchestral members. As a matter of fact, Dausgaard’s and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s togetherness, ensemble playing is totally amazing and gives this listener a completely different view of these Brahmsian masterpieces. Add Anna Larsson – Abbado’s favourite alto – Johan Reuter, and the Swedish Radio Choir, and what you get is a very, very strong team indeed. Renowned for his creativity and innovation in programming, the excitement of his live performances and an extensive catalogue of critically-acclaimed recordings, Thomas Dausgaard has been the chief conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra since 1997, and in 2016 took up the same position with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He is also set to become the music director of the Seattle Symphony in 2019.
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Anna Larsson – Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music
From the onset, the music in Das Lied von der Erde is permeated by a special mood. Even the texts, based on Far Eastern poetry, are more mood than content. Mahler repeatedly abandons the words’ meaning, but the mood remains. The music implies so much more than the words! For instance, the third poem evokes the reflection of a mirror image in water, but I don’t see those images anywhere in the music. Mahler is not concerned with helping us understand every syllable. If the voice, in its anguish, is drowned out by the orchestra, that is what the music is trying to achieve. Throughout a great number of passages, “beautiful tone” is not what is important. To the contrary. In Das Lied von der Erde, the singers are likewise required to declaim, cry, and shriek. I think that even those concertgoers who have no command of the German language have no problem in gaining a quite precise grasp of what is going on…
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