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Mahler 4th Symphony part 4. Kathleen Battle

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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4. Fourth movement, Sehr behaglich.
Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel. Kathleen Battle, soprano.

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  • I find this music, this interpretation utterly beautiful. It's almost hard to believe that a mere human being could write anything so perfect.

  • Wow!!!! I don't think I have heard anything soooo passionate, moving and touching as Kathleen Battle singing one of the most moving librettos written in a symphony...Kudos!!! Just stunning. Lorin Maazel...excellent interpretation....WAIT...Say it aint so...INCOMPLETE...Wow, where is the finished version...

  • @johnnypoker46 I agree with you. Szell, Raskin & The Cleveland Orchestra are still the standard by which all others should be measured.

  • @cristianfcao

    NOT too slow! Amazing tempi !!

  • a pity it's not complete...

  • It is too slow perhaps, but BOY what a PERFECT voice and interpretation.

  • A remarkable piece of music. In my humble opinion this is the best version on Youtube because it's the only one not conducted too fast (I first heard the track with Szell / Raskin which still sounds definitive). "Sich zeit lassen" means "take your time", does it not?

  • @billyguns2 "Contrary to Mahler's instructions"? It's impossible to judge the tempo at section 3 without hearing the first movement of his performance, otherwise Maazel does his best to observe Mahler's characteristically ambiguous amalgamations of tempo/phrasing/expression markings to the letter. Did you mean the annotation that calls for "child-like light-hearted expression, thoroughly without parody" in the beginning? That one is frequently subverted by written-out intervals and rhythms.

  • Wonderful!!!

  • @ all the ppl who've misunderstood this: it's PRECISELY what's called for in the non-specific tempo markings and the spirit of the ''vision of 'heaven''' song........ this is Mahler's grimmest, most pessimistic moment...... I'm really quite surprised he survived it without suiciding........... seriously

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