Mahler - Symphony N°8 & Symphony N°10 - Leonard Bernstein (3LP, Coffret, Enregistrement Digital)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony N°8 in E-flat major & Symphony N°10 in F-sharp major
Soprano Vocals – Gerti Zeumer (Symphony N°8), Judith Blegen (Symphony N°8), Margaret Price (Symphony N°8)
Tenor Vocals – Kenneth Riegel (Symphony N°8)
Bass Vocals – José van Dam (Symphony N°8)
Baritone Vocals – Hermann Prey (Symphony N°8)
Contralto Vocals – Agnes Baltsa (Symphony N°8), Trudeliese Schmidt (Symphony N°8)
Chorus – Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Singverein, Wiener Staatsopernchor (Symphony N°8)
Chorus Master [Die Wiener Sängerknaben] – Uwe Theimer (Symphony N°8)
Chorus Master [Wiener Singverein] – Helmuth Froschauer (Symphony N°8)
Chorus Master [Wiener Staatsopernchor] – Walter Hagen-Groll (Symphony N°8)
Organ – Rudolf Scholz
Orchestra – Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor – Leonard Bernstein
3LPs, Box set
Original analog Master tape : NO (Digital Recording Original Master Tape)
Heavy Press : 180g Virgin vinyl
Record color : Black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Live
Record Press : Pallas (Germany)
Label : Analogphonic
Original label : Deutsche Grammophon
Symphony N°10 recorded live on August 1975 at Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg
Symphony N°8 recorded at Wiener Konzerthaus in 1991
Engineered by Josef Sladko (Symphony N°8), Rolf Peter Schröder (Symphony N°10)
Produced by Gottfried Kraus (Symphony N°8), John McClure (Symphony N°10)
Remastered by Kevin Gray at Coherent Audio
Originally released in 1991
Reissued in 2017
Tracks :
Side A: Symphonie No. 10
- Adagio
Side B: Symphonie No. 8 - Part I
- Hymnus "Veni, creator spiritus"
Side C: Symphonie No. 8 - Part II
- Schlusszene aus Goethes "Faust II"
- Poco adagio
Side D: Symphonie No. 8 - Part II
- Schlusszene aus Goethes "Faust II"
- Schon etwas langsamer und immer noch massiger
Side E: Symphonie No. 8 - Part II
- Schlusszene aus Goethes "Faust II"
- Hymnenartig
Reviews:
"This, then, is the last Bernstein Eighth a one-off caught live at the 1975 Salzburg Festival... The Adagio from the Tenth, here once more is an object lesson in Mahlerian sostenuto with Bernstein breathing through and beyond the great arching phrases, aided and abetted by the unique burnished colour of those famed Vienna strings and horns. ...There is still a very special tension in the air. There always was." - Gramophone Magazine
Ratings:
Discogs : 4.6 / 5