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albedo

April 20, 2012, 03:58:29 PM
Hello! Been reading good-music-guide.com for a while and didn't realize it had a forum!

so...hear I am! a real person.

I am currently into mahler and trying to find a passionate, yet reasonable priced version of the 8th. Any recommendations?

madaboutmahler

#1
April 21, 2012, 11:50:19 AM
Hello, and welcome!

This is great to hear, Mahler is my favourite composer! My favourite recording of no.8, out of the ones I have heard so far, would be the Sinopoli which is on DG.

By the way, if you are interested in comparing recordings of Mahler, you may be interested in taking part in my 'Blind Comparison-Mahler 6' project, running here on GMG. See the 'Great Recordings' section of the thread for more details.

Best Wishes,
Daniel
"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"
— Ludwig van Beethoven

Lisztianwagner

#2
April 21, 2012, 12:10:02 PM
Welcome on the forum :)

Mahler Symphony No.8 is stunning piece, absolutely beautiful and passionate; apart from the Sinopoli recording, other higly remarkable versions are the Bernstein, which is both and Sony and on DG, and the Solti, which is on Decca.

Ilaria
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Scion7

#3
April 21, 2012, 11:21:47 PM
Quote from: albedo on April 20, 2012, 03:58:29 PM
Hello! Been reading good-music-guide.com for a while and didn't realize it had a forum!

That's funny - I didn't know there was something beyond this forum??

Welcome and watch out for wet paint.
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

sheffmark

#4
April 22, 2012, 02:35:21 PM

Welcome to the forum!! :D
Sorry for asking stupid questions!
I'm a complete novice and always will be!!


-Mark-

Hollywood

#5
April 22, 2012, 10:29:51 PM
Greetings from Vienna, Austria. Welcome to the forum.  8)
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A Hollywood born SoCal gal living in Beethoven's Heiligenstadt (Vienna, Austria).

hadimd

#6
May 13, 2012, 10:43:11 AM
I actually love Nagano's Mahler 8th. Even it's studio recording.

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English isn't my first language. Sorry if i have mistakes :)

vandermolen

#7
May 16, 2012, 12:15:49 PM
Greetings from me too.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

North Star

#8
May 16, 2012, 01:41:18 PM
Welcome to the forum, albedo!
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Mirror Image

#9
May 16, 2012, 03:11:10 PM
Welcome aboard and, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad you like Mahler. :D

North Star

#10
May 16, 2012, 03:22:05 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 16, 2012, 03:11:10 PM
Welcome aboard and, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad you like Mahler. :D

HAH!
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

Lisztianwagner

#11
May 17, 2012, 07:00:36 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 16, 2012, 03:11:10 PM
Welcome aboard and, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad you like Mahler. :D
Quote from: North Star on May 16, 2012, 03:22:05 PM
HAH!

+1 ;D

Now I expect you will say the same about Johann Strauss, John!
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

chasmaniac

#12
May 17, 2012, 07:21:39 AM
Greetings!
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI §217

mc ukrneal

#13
May 18, 2012, 12:57:05 AM
Welcome and enjoy yourself!
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Willoughby earl of Itacarius

#14
May 19, 2012, 03:30:48 AM
Welcome!
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