Mahler - Symphony No.9 / New Mastering + Presentation (reference recording : Otto Klemperer)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony No.9
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00:00 Andante comodo
28:15 Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers / Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
46:55 Rondo - Burleske
1:02:16 Adagio

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Otto Klemperer
Recorded in 1967, at London
New mastering in 2020 by AB for CMRR
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Otto Klemperer. It was as a supreme interpreter of the German Classical masterpieces, from Haydn to Richard Strauss, that concert audiences chiefly admired Otto Klemperer in the years between about 1951 and his retirement in 1972, the period to which most of his records belong. Klemperer seems always to have approached the classics in that unostentatious, selfless manner. His monumental, quite unsentimental reading of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony stirred a cheering, astonished London audience to its feet, in 1930 when Bruckner's music was supposed not to suit British tastes. And those were the days when Klemperer was outraging the Old Guard, and delighting others, with the new music that he was championing in Berlin and the old operas that he staged and conducted there so controversially. He began as a disciple and apprentice of Mahler, and always remained faithful to the music of his great mentor, though his approach to it was quite unlike the fulsome style of Bruno Walter, Mahler's bestknown protégé. First in German opera houses from 1907, then in America from 1933, and in Budapest during the years after the Second World War, Klemperer built up a vast repertory: his records give us a Idng lifetime's considered appreciation of the masterpieces to which he had given deepest attention.

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