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In the Thread: How to play Mahler 7 at home…

Post Subject: I beg your pardon!Posted by clarkjohnsen on: 9/14/2015

"I invited Clark but he sold his soul to Devil and went to Tanglewood for the concert."

Indeed I did go, for I had bought the ticket back in April. As for the Devil part, there had been no selling and therefore no satanic transaction.

Plus a weekend in the Berkshires is not to be sniffed at.

Besides T'wood I visited the Clark museum in Williamstown for a view of seventy van Goghs on exhibit -- one must never pass up a chance to see those beauties whenever they're in the neighborhood -- and Whistler's Arrangement in Black and Gray #1, which I had viewed once previously in the Louvre, it's home back in 1969. Odd -- the most famous American painting is the property of the French state.

Back to the M8, yes, it's always better live; in fact it cannot be recorded. The performance I had seen there in 1972 (the BSO under Ozawa) turns out to be even today more memorable, but Nelsons' was pretty good. The TFC was as usual superb, and many of the soloists too. Here I cite the Dr. Marianus and the Pater Profundis. The weakest element was the orchestra, who simply couldn't handle the enormity, although they were fine in the more easygoing quiet sections.

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