Gustavmahlerboard - gustavmahlerboard.com - gustavmahlerboard.com
General Information:
Latest News:
Re: BBC Proms - "Resurrection" 9.8.13. 14 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
Point taken about the soloists “Sturmisch Bewegt”, but generally it was an inspired performance I thought, gripping from start to finish, and seemed to go quickly, really wish I’d been there but didn’...
Re: Play About Mahler Off-Broadway 13 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
Stalin was in Vienna for several weeks in early 1913, meeting with Trotsky and other like-minded souls. I don't believe he was there at any point during Mahler's lifetime. Perhaps the playwright has a...
Re: Play About Mahler Off-Broadway 13 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
Was Stalin in Vienna during the time of Mahler and Freud? I don't think so but I could be wrong. Hitler at least had some connection: he would go see/listen to Mahler conducting Wagner.
Re: BBC Proms - "Resurrection" 9.8.13. 13 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
I was aware that the Vienna Phil. uses A = 444, but I wasn't aware that other orchestras were using anything other than 440. My guess is that they didn't use the R.A.H. organ because of the smallish s...
Re: Play About Mahler Off-Broadway 12 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
Unfortunately, I fail to find a connection for Stalin with Freud and Mahler, but I guess I'll have to see the play to find out. Wade
Play About Mahler Off-Broadway 12 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
A friend of mine just told me about a play that recently opened Off-Broadway where Mahler is the main character. It's about his relationship with Alma and also his meeting with Freud. I thought everyo...
Re: BBC Proms - "Resurrection" 9.8.13. 12 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
I have just listened to the performance. I find it very exciting and coherent .It has a moving "urgent" side . For me the only BUT comes from both solists whose rather banal expression did not really ...
Re: BBC Proms - "Resurrection" 9.8.13. 12 Aug 2013 | 01:04 pm
Thanks Penny. For me a new Janson's M2 performance is always wellcome. The 9.8.one is four days left to listen : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037v4wl
Re: BBC Proms - "Resurrection" 9.8.13. 12 Aug 2013 | 09:54 am
Yes, I was there in the stalls. This was my sixth Resurrection and I had high hopes. Indeed there was some beautiful playing and the tempi suited this listener perfectly so much so that, at times I h...
Re: BBC Proms - "Resurrection" 9.8.13. 12 Aug 2013 | 08:42 am
The funny thing is, Penny, is that Janson's Mahler performances with orchestras OTHER than the Amsterdam Concertgebouw seem to have a lot more excitement and visceral impact. Strange. Glad it was a go...
