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Artist: Michael Gielen
Title Of Album: Mahler: The Simphonies Nos.1-9
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Haenssler
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,log,scans)
Time: 13 CDs, 11:57:36 min
Full Size: 2,92 Gb (+1%rec.)

Like the growth of the cult of Christ, the growth of the cult of Mahler started with the man himself performing his works whenever and wherever he had the chance. Like Christ, Mahler was followed by true believers who had known him and who proselytized for him among the unbelievers with the fervor of musical Pentecostals. The true believers were followed by those who had never known the man himself but whose belief was therefore all the more passionate and subjective. And thus it was that the faith spread from Mahler to Walter, Klemperer, and Mengelberg; and then on to Mitropoulos, Bernstein, Kubelik, Solti, and Haitink; then on to Abbado, Bertini, Boulez, de Waart, Inbal, Maazel, and Rattle, spreading from the true believers to the passionate believers of the true believers to those who still keep the belief but whose faith is more reason than emotion, more intellect than spirit, more nuance than rapture.

In this Hanssler Mahler cycle, Michael Gielen leads the SWF Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg in rational, reserved, and respectable performances, performances that mute Mahler's agony and mask his ecstasy, performances that believe in the sublimity of Mahler, but with more head and mind than with heart and soul. The SWR Sinfonie plays more than capably if somewhat less than virtuosically and Hanssler's sound is open and full. But while Gielen is certainly a fine fourth-generation Mahler conductor, his restraint, his inability, or his unwillingness to surrender himself to the awesome, the immense, the infinite, and the eternal of Mahler's music prohibits him from leading truly compelling and passionately convincing performances. For truly compelling and passionately convincing fourth-generation Mahler, try Claudio Abbado. He'll beatify you, exorcise you, and sanctify you, but he'll never, ever lie to you.

Tracklist:
CD 1
Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan"
01. I. Langsam. Schleppend - Im Anfang sehr gemachlich 15:42
02. II. Kraftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell 7:05
03. III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen 9:49
04. IV. Sturmisch bewegt 19:43

CD 2
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection"
01. I. Allegro maestoso 22:16
02. II. Andante moderato 10:21
03. III. In ruhig fliessender Bewegung 10:23
04. IV. Sehr feierlich aber schlicht 5:02

CD 3
01. V. Im Tempo des Scherzo 35:49
Cornelia Kallisch - Mezzosoprano
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
02. I. Kraftig. Entschieden 35:26

CD 4
01. II. Tempo di Menuetto. Sehr massig 9:44
02. III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast 18:27
03. IV. Sehr langsam. Misterioso 9:25
04. V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck 4:27
05. VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden 24:27
Cornelia Kallisch - Mezzosoprano

CD 5
Symphony No. 4 in G major
01. I. Bedachtig. Nicht eilen Christine Whittlesey 16:56
02. II. In gemachlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast Christine Whittlesey 10:32
03. III. Ruhevoll. Poco adagio Christine Whittlesey 20:52
04. IV. Sehr behaglich Christine Whittlesey 8:09

CD 6
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
01. I. Trauermarsch. Streng. Wie ein kondukt 13:10
02. II. Sturmisch bewegt, mit grosster Vehemenz 15:08
03. III. Scherzo. Kraftig, nicht zu schnell 16:25
04. IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam 8:30
05. V. Rondo - Finale. Allegro 15:37

CD 7
Symphony No. 6 in A minor, "Tragic"
01. I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig aber markig 25:01
02. II. Scherzo: Wuchtig 14:36
03. III. Andante moderato 14:46

CD 8
01. IV. Finale: Allegro moderato - Allegro energico 30:40

CD 9
Symphony No. 7 in E minor
01. I. Langsam - Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo 22:01
02. II. Nachtmusik I: Allegro moderato 16:46
03. III. Scherzo: Schattenhaft 9:45
04. IV. Nachtmusik II: Andante amoroso 13:02
05. V. Rondo - Finale 18:10

CD 10
Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand"
Part I
01. Veni, creator spiritus - 1:23
02. Imple superna gratia - 4:07
03. Infirma nostri corporis - 6:01
04. Accende lumen sensibus - 2:30
05. Tu septiformis munere - 5:47
06. Gloria sit Patri Domino 2:59

CD 11
Part II
01. Poco adagio - Waldung, sie schwankt heran - 15:14
02. Ewiger Wonnebrand - 2:00
03. Wie Felsenabgrund mir zu Fussen - 4:23
04. Gerettet ist das edle Glied - 3:37
05. Uns bleibt ein Erdenrest - 2:26
06. Hier ist die Aussicht frei - 5:19
07. Dir, der Unberuhrbaren - 4:02
08. Bei der Liebe, die den Fussen - 5:32
09. Neige, neige, du Ohnegleiche - 4:27
10. Komm! hebe dich zu hohern Spharen! - 1:15
11. Blicket auf zum Retterblick, alle reuig Zarten - 6:31
12. Alles Vergangliche ist nur ein Gleichnis 5:55

CD 12
Symphony No. 9 in D major
01. I. Andante comodo 29:16
02. II. Im Tempo eines gemachlichen Landlers - Etwas tappisch und sehr derb 17:53
03. III. Rondo - Burleske (Allegro assai - Sehr trotzig) 14:42

CD 13
01. IV. Adagio - Sehr langsam und noch zuruckhaltend 22:47
Symphony No. 10 in F sharp minor (performing version by D. Cooke)
02. I. Adagio

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