Giuseppe Sinopoli has a unique advantage over every other Mahler conductor: he was trained in Vienna not only as a conductor but as a psychoanalyst as well. Given that Mahler was the only great composer to actually have a session with Freud, Sinopoli's psychoanalytic insights could provide him with a way into Mahler's music virtually endorsed by the composer himself.This way in ought to prove particularly direct in his recording of Das Klagende Lied, Mahler's earliest masterpiece. Das Klagende Lied has been ruthlessly if ...
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Giuseppe Sinopoli has a unique advantage over every other Mahler conductor: he was trained in Vienna not only as a conductor but as a psychoanalyst as well. Given that Mahler was the only great composer to actually have a session with Freud, Sinopoli's psychoanalytic insights could provide him with a way into Mahler's music virtually endorsed by the composer himself.This way in ought to prove particularly direct in his recording of Das Klagende Lied, Mahler's earliest masterpiece. Das Klagende Lied has been ruthlessly if not especially rigorously analyzed by musicologists for traces of Mahler's fratricidal jealousy of his slightly younger brother Ernst and of his homicidal rage that he enacts in the first part of the work. You'd think that a conductor trained in Vienna would be uniquely able to articulate the insights that a psychoanalyst trained in Vienna would glean from the work. You'd be wrong. Not that Sinopoli's performance of Das Klagende Lied is bad. Actually, it's quite good. Sinopoli holds...
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