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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 | 
| Artists: Benjamin Zander, Camilla Tilling, Philharmonia Orchestra
Label: Telarc
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 100139
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 137 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 089408055522
EAN: 0089408055522
ASIN: B00005NSVK
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I. Bedachtig. Nicht Eilen | | • | II. In Gemachlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast | | • | III. Ruhevoll (Poco Adagio) | | • | IV. Sehr Behaglich |
Disc 2
| • | Fourth Movementt: The Heavenly Life | | • | First Movement: The Earthly Struggle | | • | Second Movement: Death Takes The Fiddle | | • | Third Movement: The Gates Of Heaven |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Benjamin Zander's Mahler series has been winning accolades and his Fourth is fully up to its predecessors. He takes an expansive view of Mahler's shortest, most accessible and sunniest symphony, caressing its plentiful melodies and capturing its serene mood. Zander, as always, pays close attention to Mahler's markings so, aided by Telarc's superb sonics, we hear details often bypassed in other recordings. The last movement, featuring a song set to a poem from IDes Knaben Wunderhorn/I, presents a child's view of heaven. Camilla Trilling sings it with the wide-eyed innocence demanded by the words and music, avoiding the common fault of so many recordings of a soprano who sounds too old, too knowing, or too sophisticated. If Zander's doesn't supersede versions by Kletzki, Szell, and Tennstedt, it is one of the best available for both sound and performance. Its attractiveness is greatly enhanced by a 79-minute bonus disc, an illustrated lecture by Zander that's hugely informative and entertaining, sure to enlighten even experienced Mahlerians. --IDan Davis/I
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| Customer Reviews:
Divine path to the heavenly life November 12, 2006
Nicholas Casley (Plymouth, Devon, UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I rarely award five stars, and I should point out that the five stars are for the performance rather than for the work itself (which I would give four stars).
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br /Mahler's 4th was the first of his symphonies to which I was introduced and I have long considered it to be the least appealing in his magnificent symphonic output. It always seemed too sweet and sickly to me: too Viennese, with all those references to waltzes and contrived innocence. Zander's is the eighth version of this work in my collection and has proven to be the best. His commentary has highlighted its darker episodes and his interpretation of the beautiful third movement has forced me to re-appraise my previously held opinion of the frivolous nature of the work. In short, it can be profoundly moving, not only in the slow movement, but in the darkened scherzo and in the climax of the first movement's development.
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br /The performance is faultless: the sound is wonderful. Camilla Tilling's shot at arousing my wonder in the finale hits home - it is not often that one hears a singer stretch herself so far and yet so naturally. (My disc came with Zander's commentary on the work as an extra CD, which includes an extract from a performance he gave in Vienna with a boy singing the soprano's part. A marvellous experience. Why has no-one recorded such a version before?)
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br /To conclude, Zander's is the best version of this work I know, and I have no hesitation in recommending it as a five-star performance.
Splendid version with bonus cd to boot October 23, 2009
JJA Kiefte (Tegelen, Nederland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It took some persuasion to like and understand Mahler's fourth (although I had listened to some six or seven different performances) and it was Yoel Levi's recording on Telarc that finally won me over, although I was less than impressed with Mrs Von Stade's singing.
br /ANd then came along a Mr. Zander, a completely unknow entity to me, but if he were good enough to conduct the Philharmonia I though it worth a try. I found myself convinced not only of this particular Mahler symphony once more, but also of the interpretative capacities of said Mr Zander (in the meantime I have listened to many of his other discs and was not disappointed). I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's the best (is there ever a 'best' I wonder?) but it is certainly a very good one, helped in no small way by Camilla Tilling's singing. Her innocent, almost naïve singing must be heard to be believed. The disc with Zander's commentary on the work is an added bonus which I would not gladly have missed (don't be put off by ClassicsToday's sour comment on Zander's purported 'longwindedness').
br /To the novice a very worthwhile introduction to Mahler's soundworld, to the die hard fans an item that, like Boulez's Mahler discs, may be a stone of contention.
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