If all you've ever heard of Hermann Scherchen's Mahler has been his stunted Fifth with the French National Radio Orchestra, his crippled Sixth with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, or his tortured Seventh with the Toronto Symphony, you're not going to believe that Scherchen's recording of Mahler's Second Symphony is one of the work's greatest recordings.But it is! Listen to his first movement. Listen to the phenomenal accuracy of the cellos and basses at the opening, to the hushed sublimity of the violins for "Resurrection" theme, ...
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If all you've ever heard of Hermann Scherchen's Mahler has been his stunted Fifth with the French National Radio Orchestra, his crippled Sixth with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, or his tortured Seventh with the Toronto Symphony, you're not going to believe that Scherchen's recording of Mahler's Second Symphony is one of the work's greatest recordings.But it is! Listen to his first movement. Listen to the phenomenal accuracy of the cellos and basses at the opening, to the hushed sublimity of the violins for "Resurrection" theme, to the paroxysm at the Pesante at bar 87, to the way he holds the tempo back at bar 104, releases it at bar 117, lets it flow forward at bar 162, pushes it forward at bar 195, eases it forward at bar 207...Listen to the terror at the development's climax. Listen to precision of the Molto pesante and the ritardando just before the recapitulation.And, believe it or not, it only gets better after that. Listen to Scherchen's second movement. Mahler called it a slow movement and marked it...
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