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Mahler: Symphony No 3 / Nagano, Deutsches Symphonie Berlin


Release Date: 10/10/2000 
Label:  Teldec   Catalog #: 82354   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Gustav Mahler
Performer:  Dagmar Pecková,  Joachim Pliquett,  Andreas Klein
Conductor:  Kent Nagano
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,  Berlin Radio Female Chorus,  Hanover Boys' Choir
Number of Discs: 2 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 1 Hours 35 Mins. 

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...Nagano, like Rattle and Salonen, shows that there’s no limit to orchestral sophistication as Mahler performances enter the 21st century (his interpretation was recorded live, though you’d rarely guess it from the note-perfect playing, in November 1999). He clips the funeral-march rhythms of rock-solid nature at the start rather curiously, and both the raggle-taggle marchers and rioting forest animals could afford to career out of control; but the gain is that you hear all the competing figures with exemplary clarity – a crystalline vision that’s mirrored by the splendidly tactile engineering.

Performance: 4 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)

-- David Nice, BBC Music Magazine
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Among the phantasmagoria of Gustav Mahler's symphonies the Third stands out for its size, length and detailed programme, as its six movements plot the course of life, the evolution of nature, the soul and the godhead, with no less than Zarathustra himself making an appearance in the mysterious third movement. Among versions of this massive work, Kent Nagano's stands out for its lean profile, alert, athletic and beautifully balanced as heard in a superb recording, which happens to be his first for Teldec as the Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The highlight of the performance is the final hymn-like slow movement, which is delivered at a flowing pace, quicker and more impulsive than what one often hears and in many ways more passionate and exciting.
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Works on This Recording

1. Symphony no 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler
Performer:  Dagmar Pecková (Mezzo Soprano), Joachim Pliquett (Posthorn), Andreas Klein (Trombone)
Conductor:  Kent Nagano
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,  Berlin Radio Female Chorus,  Hanover Boys' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1893-1896; Hamburg, Germany 
 Date of Recording: 1999 
Venue:  Live  Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany 
Length: 95 Minutes 16 Secs. 
Language: German 

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