My review of last evening’s New York Philharmonic concert (the first subscription program under their new music director, Alan Gilbert) is live at ClassicalSource.com.
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‘Cast from the Past: Deryck Cooke on an “Authentic” Mahler Tradition
Shortly after the 1962 release of Otto Klemperer’s EMI/Columbia (UK) recording of Mahler’s Symphony No.4, musicologist Deryck Cooke recorded a program for the BBC Third Programme comparing Klemperer’s recordings to others, particularly Bruno Walter and Willem Mengelberg, in search of an “authentic” interpretive approach to Mahler.
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Leopold Stokowski on Mahler’s Symphony No.8
Stokowski recalls the both the world premiere and American premiere of the work; from an interview recorded in the late 1960s. (Podcast is after the break.)
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