Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Jessye Norman - Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Mahler: Symphony No. 3
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Artist: Jessye Norman
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Vienna Boys' Choir
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1984-06-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Symphonie No. 3: Part I: 1st Movement: Kraftig. Entschieden
  2. Symphonie No. 3: Part I: 1st Movement: Langsam. Schwer
  3. Symphonie No. 3: Part I: 1st Movement: Tempo I
  4. Symphonie No. 3: Part I: 1st Movement: A Tempo
  5. Symphonie No. 3: Part I: 1st Movement: Immer Dasselbe Tempo (Marsch)
  6. Symphonie No. 3: Part I: 1st Movement: (Allegro Moderato)
  7. Symphonie No. 3: Part I: 1st Movement: Tempo I
  8. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 2nd Movement: Tempo Di Menuetto. Sehr Massig
  9. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 2nd Movement: A Tempo
  10. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 2nd Movement: Ganz Plotzlich Gemachlich. Tempo Di Menuetto
  11. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 3rd Movement: Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast
  12. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 3rd Movement: Wieder Sehr Gemachlich, Wie Zu Anfang
  13. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 3rd Movement: Sehr Gemachlich (Posthorn)
  14. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 3rd Movement: Tempo I
  15. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 3rd Movement: Wieder Sehr Gemachlich, Beinahe Langsam
Music CD 2
  1. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 4th Movement: Sehr Langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus PPP
  2. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 4th Movement: Piu Mosso Subito
  3. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 5th Movement: Lustig Im Tempo Und Keck Im Ausdruck
  4. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 6th Movement: Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
  5. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 6th Movement: Nicht Mehr So Breit
  6. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 6th Movement: Tempo I. Ruhevoll
  7. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 6th Movement: A Tempo (Etwas Bewegter)
  8. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 6th Movement: Tempo I
  9. Symphonie No. 3: Part II: 6th Movement: Langsam. Tempo I

Music reviews of Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Music Review: One of my all-time favorites
Rating: 5 Stars

Abbado is a great conductor who has a not-entirely-undeserved reputation as an unsteady Mahlerian. But he has always shown a real knack for Mahler's 3rd, and this earlier digital recording with the VPO, Norman, et al. is a case in point. It is one of my favorite Mahler recordings, in spite of having one of the *ugliest* cover designs in existence.

Apart from keeping an audience awake for a 100-plus minute symphony, I think the biggest challenge for anyone interpreting this piece is finding the right balance between its musical and emotional depth and its thrilling showmanship; lean too much one way and the piece becomes too heavy and ponderous, too much the other way and it's a pretty good movie soundtrack but a mediocre symphony. Abbado and the VPO find just the right balance, especially in the first movement, which they manage to present as thrillingly dramatic without being just flashy.
Norman is wonderful, especially in the fourth movement; I can't think of a better performance of this movement on any level.

My only two complaints (besides the horrid color-scheme of the cover art) are about the 3rd and last movements: the posthorn solos in the former have little presence at all. It sounds as though the trumpet soloist, not content with going offstage, decided to keep going down the street to a nearby Vienna cafe and play his solos from there. The last movement, although lovingly and intensely played, is taken a bit more slowly than I would like, something that Abbado doesn't do to me very often.

Still, that isn't a lot to complain about in a piece of this length and size. This is quite simply the best Mahler 3rd in my opinion, and the answer to anyone who says Abbado doesn't get Mahler.

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