Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C Minor "Resurrection"

Gustav Mahler (Composer), Mariss Jansons (Conductor), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Felicity Lott (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Felicity Lott
• Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
• Conductor: Mariss Jansons
• Composer: Gustav Mahler
• Audio CD (October 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Chandos
• ASIN: B000000AA7
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,580 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A performance which grows in stature....., June 3, 1999

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This review is from: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C Minor "Resurrection" (Audio CD)

I read David Hurvitz' review and could not disagree more! This Mahler 2 is a performance which grows in stature with each hearing! The orchestral playing is impeccable. Details which are either hidden or glossed over are given full consideration. Witness the very opening...it takes your breath away! Admittedly this is a difficult work to bring off 100 percent, but Jansons and his forces give of their best and the results are impressive. I was struck particularly by the offstage orchestra in the fourth movement...so distant, and yet so full of atmosphere. On many recordings, this is played in the orchestra (albeit muted) and the effect is for naught! Kudos to Mariss Jansons for being true to Mahler's directions. The last movement is very well paced, and the final chorus brings one to one's feet as Mahler wished! Very well done indeed!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jansons with an wise approach to Mahler, November 29, 1999

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Mats Andre Halvorsen (Oslo) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C Minor "Resurrection" (Audio CD)

In my view people who criticise this performance do not really understand Mariss Jansons way of conducting. Jansons philosophy as a conductor is to try to present the work as the notes speak to him. From him there is no personal ambitons to try to interpret the work acording to according to his subjective mind. In other words: the music speaks by itself and there is no reason for the conductor to tamper with it. I think there is no composer this works so well with than Gustav Mahler. Mahlers symphonic works are gigantic, his thems are enormous and sometimes chaotic, his music often ends with big climaxes, and there is a use of a lots of different instruments. Jansons in this recording lets the second symohony walk on its own feet, as a conductor he tries only to ensure the that the symphony is played correctly according to Mahlers notes. With the aid of the highly skilled Oslo Philarmonic Orchestra it becomes a seldom recorded Mahler symphony where there is possible to sit back and try to understand more of Mahlers and not of the conductor's musical thoughts.Bravo !

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't listen to Hurwitz, March 13, 2000

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emmkay (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C Minor "Resurrection" (Audio CD)

I disagree with Hurwitz, who seems jaded and prejudiced by certain recordings that are considered part of the stereophile 'canon'. Unlike Mehta, Bernstein and Klemperer, who all take considerable liberties with the score with sometimes dubious purpose, Jansons' interpretation is rather uncorrupted without ever sacrificing emotional drive and logic. True, the Oslo Philharmonic does not play quite at the level of, say, the Chicago Symphony or the LSO (with Solti), or the Berlin Philharmonic or the Concertgebouw (with Haitink). Nonethelss, it is truly amazing what gorgeous orchestral colors Jansons elicits from this orchestra. Having recently been appointed to the helm of both the Bavarian Radio Symphony and the Royal Concertgebouw--both orchestras with a considerable Mahler heritage and experience--this recording lets us hope that in the not too distant future we will hear even finer accounts of this symphony from the hands of this extraordinarily gifted conductor.