Jens, one of the posters at Ionarts (which is based in Washington DC), has posted a very extensive survey of Mahler recordings at the WETA blog, with his personal preferences ( Read more... )

Anyone know where I can locate on line scores of the Second and Third Symphonies? ChoralWiki only has partial piano reductions, and IMSLP only has the individual instrumental parts, not complete scores. As regards the Second, at least, this seems to be due to copyright issues ( Read more... )

  Anybody heard this song cycle in an orchestration of A.Schoenberg ( Read more... )

This is great for high school and younger college students interested in playing in an orchestra or at least delving into the world of orchestral repertoire for trumpet. This is a great buy, because the retail price is $880 or more usually, and selling this for half of that at $499. Email me if you are interested at gms05c@gmail.com ( Read more... )

Looking for a new recording of Mahler's First ( Read more... )

You may recall that I inquired a little while ago about recordings of the Sixth, and ended up with the new Haitink/CSO. Well, after that I went back for more, and have, in the last ten days or so, gotten the following ( Read more... )

About two days ago, I posted asking for opinions about which recording of the Mahler Sixth I should get out of the options in my local borders. The plurality was for the Haitink/CSO version, and I got it today ( Read more... )

The work in question: Mahler's Sixth ( Read more... )

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  It's a wide-spread judgement, that all mahlerists are also brucknerists. Both composers belong to late romantism (close to expressionism), so the styles are similar. But there is a difference between them: Mahler's music is more expressive and daring, with much more small soul half-tones. What about Bruckner: he is more religious, not so ( Read more... )