Composer: Gustav Mahler
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release: 1979/2015
Size: 3.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. I. Andante comodo
02. II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
03. III. Rondo – Burleske. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
04. IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend
Recorded in West Berlin in October 1979, this live album stands as a document of the only time Leonard Bernstein ever conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker. Described by Gramophone as “an extraordinary night,” the performance brings together a world class orchestra, a legendary conductor and one of Mahler’s greatest symphonies.
Bernstein conducts a superb fourth movement. A red hot, searing delivery of this wonderful music … the Berliners play with mind-numbing power, strings especially encouraged to greater and greater levels of emotion by Bernstein … a testament to the man’s genius.