Mahler: Symphony No. 6 [Import]

Gustav Mahler (Composer), Mariss Jansons (Conductor), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Mariss Jansons
• Composer: Gustav Mahler
• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Lso Live UK
• ASIN: B0000AM6OM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,304 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No point waiting for Sanderling now!, October 27, 2004

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Martin Selbrede (The Woodlands, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Audio CD)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jansons seems to have a special empathy for this work., December 29, 2006

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Peter Heddon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Audio CD)

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.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must for all Mahlerians, November 8, 2003

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C. A. Campos (Montclair, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Audio CD)

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.