Mahler: Symphonies 8-10 - Feltz

Dreyer Gaido 21440 (4 discs)
Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid
Classical - Orchestral
Mahler: Symphonies 8-10
Emily Newton, Michaela Kaune & Ashley Thourel, sopranos
Iris Vermillion & Mihoko Fujimura, altos
Brenden Patrick Gunnell, tenor
Markus Eiche, baritone
Karl-Heinz Lehner, bass
Czech Philharmonic Chorus Brno
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus Bratislava
Knabenchor der Chorakademie Dortmund
Dortmunder Philharmoniker (8 & 9)
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker (10 - Adagio, Purgatorio only)
Gabriel Feltz, conductor
(Symphonies 1-7 on CD)
To record such a global oeuvre as Gustav Mahler’s ten symphonies is a truly Herculean task. After 15 years of intensive musical labour, Gabriel Feltz, former participant of the Deutsche Musikrat’s Conductors Forum and now General Music Director of the City of Dortmund, has produced a really impressive complete recording, and is the only German conductor of his generation to have done so.
Two orchestras, namely the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Dortmund Philharmonic, can be heard on this highly acclaimed CD cycle. Once again it reveals Feltz’s instinct to focus on the inner core of Mahler’s music, even in these almost over-exuberant works. Fono Forum praised him for his “recordings which are conceived with a cool head”, and the Stuttgarter Nachrichten rejoiced at “a production of unfettered sound contrasts”.
In September 2021 the project reached its dazzling conclusion with the release of the stunning 9th symphony and the original, two movement fragment of the 10th symphony.
The edition contains a 108 pages booklet with work comments by Gabriel Feltz and an original text by Volker Hagedorn.
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