I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside: Gustav Mahler In Toblach

Uri Caine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Winter & Winter
• ASIN: B00001ZT1E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #283,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Jazz Music
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Media Type: Compact Disk

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Live Uri Caine Mahler project, June 23, 2000

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bimwa (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside: Gustav Mahler In Toblach (Audio CD)

Let me clear up something that other reviews have missed - this double cd is a LIVE rendition of the "Primal Light" single cd, hence it's fitting over two discs. While much of it is fantastic, I don't see it as absolutely necessary since the original has a live feel about it anyway. But the arrangements unfold completely differently to on "Primal Light". And I think that is the point of both "Primal Light" and this double cd. It is not to add jazz, klezmer and hip-hop to Mahler as an exercise in arranging and updating the music; rather it is finding that Mahler is an excellent vehicle for jazz soloing (and arrangement). The ensemble is a smaller one than on "Primal Light", featuring Ralph Alessi on trumpet, Dave Binney on sax, Mark Feldman on violin and the wonderful Jim Black on drums among others. Anyway, it's a very interesting project, but I would recommend going for "Primal Light" first, then this one...

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The final step, and a great success, August 14, 2001

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George Grella "Urbane citizen" (Brooklyn) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside: Gustav Mahler In Toblach (Audio CD)

The next stage from 'Urlicht/Primal Light' is this live performance of the same material, in the same order, and it is a complete success. As if the interval alone from first recording to performance allowed time for the ideas to sink in, everyone sounds completely comfortable and confident with the material, and the playing really catches fire. While some choices and ideas may not work for everyone - the turntable sound of a crying baby at the beginning of one of the Kindetotenlieder tunes is still unsettling to me - the sense of ease the musicians have allows them to be far more daring with Mahler in this fiery jazz context. The bassist even plays the opening theme from the 3rd movement of Symphony No. 1 with so much of what Mahler intended in it that it should be a listen for every orchestral player seeking to master this music. It is great jazz, full of Mahler himself. A wonderful record.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointment, July 6, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside: Gustav Mahler In Toblach (Audio CD)

Pianist Uri Caine's previous take on the music of Mahler, Urlicht/Primal Light, was a fascinating exploration of the Jewish elements in Mahler's music. This new two-CD live set, recorded in 1998 at a Gustav Mahler Festival in Italy, is quite a letdown in light of that earlier recording. Perhaps part of the reason is that the band is somewhat different this time around; notably missing in action are trumpeter Dave Douglas (the trumpeter on this recording seems less tuned in to the Mahler idiom) and clarinetist Don Byron (there is no clarinet in the Toblach recording), whose Klezmer-like stylings are sorely missed.

Where the earlier recording was thought provoking, this new one seems merely annoying. Also annoying is the packaging that Winter and Winter has employed, which is just awful. All in all, this is a truly disappointing release.