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Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Gustav Mahler, Mariss Jansons, London Symphony Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Genre: Classical
 
  •  Track Listings (3) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (1) - Disc #2

Mahler said that his sixth symphony expressed 'the cruelties I have suffered and the pains I've felt.' Few symphonies have captured emotions with such brutal perfection, nor been so prophetic. Mariss Jansons's performance...  more »

     
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All Artists: Gustav Mahler, Mariss Jansons, London Symphony Orchestra
Title: Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Lso Live UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2003
Re-Release Date: 9/9/2003
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 822231103820

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Mahler said that his sixth symphony expressed 'the cruelties I have suffered and the pains I've felt.' Few symphonies have captured emotions with such brutal perfection, nor been so prophetic. Mariss Jansons's performances of the symphony were truly revelatory events, greeted with unanimous critical and public acclaim. The recording is his first release on LSO Live.

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CD Reviews

No point waiting for Sanderling now!
Martin Selbrede | The Woodlands, Texas | 10/27/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Having a handful of versions of each Mahler symphony, I wanted to acquire an additional modern recording of the 6th to expand my collection. Reviews of the Sanderling reading were uniformly great (excepting the few who complained that he conducted Mahler as if it were Shostakovich). I placed that order on Amazon -- and waited-- month after month -- and the delivery date kept getting pushed out farther. As a stopgap measure, I decided to try the Jansons version with the LSO (having been VERY impressed with his reading of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances), and found this live recording to be an overwhelming experience in all particulars. I decisively cancelled the Sanderling order with a clear conscience. As a deeply powerful reading of Mahler's Sixth that traverses its entire arc of nuances, one can only say of this LSO Live release, "Game over, man!" FYI, there should be a "Woofer Advisory" sticker on the CD: the first hammerblow knocks your teeth out."
A Must for all Mahlerians
C. A. Campos | Montclair, NJ United States | 11/08/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"A rendering of "the only sixth" in the classical repertoire worth more than five stars. Wao, I am speechless, what a feeling of vastness, infinitude; I am finally beginning to get it. A "bravo" and another for Jansons, who is quickly becoming one of my favorite conductors, alongside Klemperer and Celibidache."
Jansons seems to have a special empathy for this work.
Peter Heddon | 12/29/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I should declare my knowledge of Mahler 6 recordings:Vaclav Neumann (excellent)and George Szell(dry and cursory)

i'm very happy with this latest addition to my collection:Jansons has a keen ear for detail but this never impedes the momentum,or a sense of the bigger picture.As for lightweight....i don't hear it myself....but Kubelik was always accused of the same thing,and look how his marvellous,glowing cycle has stood the test of time.The LSO may not be as colourful in timbre as Kubelik's Bavarian RSO but they appear to be at full tilt on this very special occasion."