Concertgebouw Orchestra Mahler Symphony No.4 Haitink Schafer
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Visit Bernstein and Mathis with Wiener Philharmoniker!
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@doktordrakator Check out Heather Harper's if you haven't already.
Recorded later in her career, it's detailed, simple and simultaneously opulent.
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I do agree with the fact that her performance does not truly reflect the naïveté of a child's vision of heaven, but I have to say that her tender tone especially in the last verse of this movement is soooo there. Gave me goosebumps!
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She is very good. However, Judith Raskin, Georg Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra are still the standard by which all others should be measured. As I see it, even with the improved sonics, it's still not as good. Raskin & Szell performed magic....not another Mahler 4th like it.
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I was there at the concert ... and I have to admit I more liked the performance years earlier with this most eminent singer Roberta Alexander. A warmer and girlier voice.
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@MarcusHK1 ........ I agree. After listening to a radio broadcast of Schaefer with the BPO & Simon Rattle, I should say that her performance was sublime! With the slightest inflections which was totally right for singing about slaughtering animals. Ms Schaefer is truly a wonderful singer!!
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@sbor2020 I think she has improved in her later version with Christoph Eschenbach and the Orchestre de Paris (also available on YT).
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@doktordrakator You probably are right, but I still love this performance. .
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5:03 to the end is just great =´ )
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Oh, que c'est beau ! Christine Schäfer est solaire, l'orchestre est divin. Bravo et mille mercis.
I have been looking for very long for a Mahler fourth with a satisfying fourth movement. This is definitely my favorite so far. Christine Schäfer is great...!
doktordrakator 3 years ago 19
Great performance. I love Christine Schaefer, especially as Lulu, but in this she is too worldly and not really apt for a child's vision of heaven. Mahler requested an expression of innocence, without irony. I don't think this is innocence, but experience.
Edith Mathis (on yt)for Bernstein is the real deal!
sbor2020 3 years ago 13