The next Mahler cycle coming up on record is from…
main… the Concertgebouw label and different conductors.
It starts in springtime and here’s the list:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is planning a spring 2012 release of full Mahler cycle on DVD & Blu Ray (11 DVD box set) on its orchestra owned label RCO Live
S1: Daniel Harding
S2: Mariss Jansons (Merbeth, Fink, Netherlands Radio Choir)
S3: Mariss Jansons (Fink, Netherlands Radio Choir)
S4: Iván Fischer (Persson)
S5: Daniele Gatti
S6: Lorin Maazel
S7: Pierre Boulez
S8: Mariss Jansons (Brewer, Nylund, Espada, Blythe, Fujimura, Snith, Hakala, Kocan, Netherlands Radio Choir, State Choir Latvija, Bavarian Radio Choir)
S9: Bernard Haitink
Lied von der Erde: Fabio Luisi (Larsson, Smith)
S10 (Cooke): Eliahu Inbal
All full HD live recordings (5.0 surr.) taken from the 2009-2011 Mahler celebration at Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
One wonders who is paying for this release. Someone has very deep pockets. A co-producer in broadcasting? The Dutch taxpayer? A bank? An insurance company? An oil company? A Russian oligarch?