Mahler 1. If you're new to the music of Gustav Mahler, start here: Runnicles, DSO Berlin 2009 live

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony number 1

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

January 18, 2009

Live broadcast from Berlin Philharmonie, Grosser Saal

If you're new to the music of Gustav Mahler, start here.

If not, there is still more previously unnoticed detail to cull from his first symphony, as Runnicles brings out in a tight, bounding playpen of cacophony from the DSO Berlin. 

After running around between a dozen other contenders for a favorite broadcast Mahler 1, this one beat out the pack. Barenboim's East-West youth assault had some great frisson, but so does this and with more focussed string textures to boot. Overall, the clarity of the interacting lines of sound impressed and delighted here; I hope you find as much in this interpretation as I have.

Prokofiev series by Gergiev/LSO live 2009 at Lincoln Center: Russian Dreams II

PART TWO: VOLS. 3 & 4

And the last two nights of this mostly outstanding series (Volumes 3 & 4, continued from previous post):

Vol. 3/4:

March 29, 2009 

in house recording

Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall

"Russian Dreams: The Music of Sergei Prokofiev"

Sergei Prokofiev

Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.44 (1928)

• Moderato
  
• Andante
  
• Allegro agitato--Allegretto
  
• Andante mosso--Allegro agitato
  

Piano Concerto No.4 in B-flat major, Op.53 (1931)

• Vivace
  
• Andante
  
• Moderato
  
• Vivace
  

Encore Alexei Volodin

Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op.112

(revised version) (1947)

• Andante assai--Allegro eroico--Allegretto
  
• Andante tranquillo
  
• Moderato, quasi allegretto
  
• Allegro risoluto
  

Encore: Dance of the Knights from

Romeo and Juliet

Vol. 4/4:

March 30, 2009

Sergei Prokofiev

Symphony No.4 in C major, Op.47

(original version) (1929-30)

• Andante assai--Allegro eroico
  
• Andante tranquillo
  
• Moderato, quasi allegretto
  
• Allegro risoluto
  

Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935)

• Allegro moderato
  
• Andante assai
  
• Allegro, ben marcato
  

Encore

Vadim Repin and Andrew Haveron

Symphony No.5 in B-flat major, Op.100 (1944)

• Andante
  
• Allegro marcato
  
• Adagio
  
• Allegro giocoso
  

Encore: March from the Love of Three Oranges

London Symphony Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Andrew Haveron, guest leader

Vadim Repin, violin

Alexei Volodin, piano

Prokofiev series by Gergiev/LSO live 2009 at Lincoln Center: Russian Dreams

PART ONE: March 23 & 24, 2009

The whole Lincoln Center "Russian Dreams" Series is so ridiculously embarrassing in it's overflow of vividly performed riches that here it is:

A miniseries with almost all of it (what I could find, at least)...

Try this one through some good headphones; it's worth it, being a from-the middle-of-the-audience soundpoint!

 in house recordings

Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall

London Symphony Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, conductor

"Russian Dreams: The Music of Sergei Prokofiev"

Vol. 1/4: 

March 23, 2009

Sergei Prokofiev

1-4 Symphony No.1 "Classcial"

5-7 Piano Concerto no.2

Encore:

Johannes Sebastian Bach (trans. Alexander Siloti)

8 Prelude in B minor, BWV 855a

Vladimir Feltsman, soloist

Vol. 2/4: 

March 24, 2009

Sergei Prokofiev

1-2 Symphony No.2

3-5 Violin Concerto no.2

Encore:

8 Scherzo from Violin Concerto no.2

9-11 Symphony no.7

Encore:

12 March from "Love For Three Oranges"

Vadim Repin, soloist

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Read what the NY Times reviewer felt about this series HERE

Purchase the studio recordings of this conductor/orchestra in Prokofiev HERE

The last two concerts from this series coming soon...