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Leinsdorf scored an enormous personal triumph early in his first season (1962-63) as the Boston Symphony’s Music Director with Mahler’s First Symphony. The RCA recording they made together duly captures much of the brilliance and dash of their live chemistry in the work, and for months after its release it remained one of the best-selling classical albums in the US. Leinsdorf’s remake of the symphony in London almost a decade later, for the Phase 4 sublabel of Decca, has enjoyed a less storied reputation, but on its first release it was preferred to the BSO version by the doyen of Mahler critics in the UK, Deryck Cooke.
The Mahler was Leinsdorf’s second album for Phase 4 after a typically lucid pairing of Wagner and Richard Strauss made in 1969. ‘Bleeding chunks’ they may be, but in fact Leinsdorf rejected all the available suites from Der Rosenkavalier and made his own, observing both the chronology and the expressive narrative of the opera, and critics again found they preferred his version to any other.
Leinsdorf lacked for nothing in terms of both confidence and experience on the podium, as his supremely lucid writings on the subject of conducting make abundantly clear, and he could win the absolute trust of orchestras – even ones as hard-bitten as the LSO – within a single rehearsal. Live recordings of his Rosenkavalier complete have become sought-after collectors’ items, but (like the Mahler) this Phase 4 album in sumptuous sound has been available only within a much larger box-set: this handy reissue should delight all lovers of propulsive, full-blooded performances of Romantic classics.
(© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
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Symphony No. 1 in D (Gustav Mahler)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Erich Leinsdorf, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Tony d'Amato, Recording Producer - Arthur Lilley, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Erich Leinsdorf, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Tony d'Amato, Recording Producer - Arthur Lilley, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Erich Leinsdorf, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Tony d'Amato, Recording Producer - Arthur Lilley, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Erich Leinsdorf, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Tony d'Amato, Recording Producer - Arthur Lilley, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Tannhäuser - Concert version (Richard Wagner)
London Symphony Orchestra - Erich Leinsdorf, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - Tony d'Amato, Producer - Arthur Lilley, Balance Engineer
℗ 1970 Decca Music Group Limited
Concert Suite from "Der Rosenkavalier" (Richard Strauss)
London Symphony Orchestra - Erich Leinsdorf, Conductor - Richard Strauss, Composer - Tony d'Amato, Producer - Arthur Lilley, Balance Engineer
℗ 1970 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
Leinsdorf scored an enormous personal triumph early in his first season (1962-63) as the Boston Symphony’s Music Director with Mahler’s First Symphony. The RCA recording they made together duly captures much of the brilliance and dash of their live chemistry in the work, and for months after its release it remained one of the best-selling classical albums in the US. Leinsdorf’s remake of the symphony in London almost a decade later, for the Phase 4 sublabel of Decca, has enjoyed a less storied reputation, but on its first release it was preferred to the BSO version by the doyen of Mahler critics in the UK, Deryck Cooke.
The Mahler was Leinsdorf’s second album for Phase 4 after a typically lucid pairing of Wagner and Richard Strauss made in 1969. ‘Bleeding chunks’ they may be, but in fact Leinsdorf rejected all the available suites from Der Rosenkavalier and made his own, observing both the chronology and the expressive narrative of the opera, and critics again found they preferred his version to any other.
Leinsdorf lacked for nothing in terms of both confidence and experience on the podium, as his supremely lucid writings on the subject of conducting make abundantly clear, and he could win the absolute trust of orchestras – even ones as hard-bitten as the LSO – within a single rehearsal. Live recordings of his Rosenkavalier complete have become sought-after collectors’ items, but (like the Mahler) this Phase 4 album in sumptuous sound has been available only within a much larger box-set: this handy reissue should delight all lovers of propulsive, full-blooded performances of Romantic classics.
(© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
Details of original recording : Kingsway Hall, London, UK 19–20 April 1971 (Mahler), 14 February 1969 (Wagner, Strauss)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 6 track(s)
- Total length: 01:34:37
- Main artists: Erich Leinsdorf
- Composer: Gustav Mahler
- Label: Decca
- Area: Autriche
- Genre: Classical Symphonic Music
- Period: Post-romantic Music
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. This Compilation ℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
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