Possibly the most important Mahler recording you’ve never heard

Possibly the most important Mahler recording you’ve never heard

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norman lebrecht

October 06, 2014

It has floated at the edge of musical consciousness for decades in pirate releases of terrible quality.

It’s the only performance of a Mahler work ever given by the ultimate conductor, Carlos Kleiber, who spent a year thinking about it and a night deciding to eliminate the composer from his repertoire.

Now, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra have released a clean master-tape of the concert.

Must be heard to be believed.

It’s my five-star Album of the Week on sinfinimusic.com. Read here.

das lied

 

Comments

  • Ljubisa says:

    thanks Norm for a wonderful words, comments and precise mind! Kleiber…unique!

  • Michael Endres says:

    Cannot wait to hear that , thank you for the recommendation !!

  • joel stein says:

    I am excited to hear a cleaned up version of this-but what Mahler/Kleiber hasn’t heard it?-it has been available for years! It has even been available on you tube.

  • ML says:

    It has been intermittently available in the CD era for about 25 years. Its first appearance on CD that I am aware of is on Nuova Era, which was released in 1988. Can’t wait to hear the official release!

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