Was it the novelty of the medium -- the music was recorded live in a performance streamed online from the Philharmonie in Cologne -- that gave the electricity to this performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor? Was it the long familiarity of the Gürzenich Orchester Köln with the work (Mahler conducted the work's premiere with this ensemble in 1902)? Was it the unusual Mahler expertise of conductor François-Xavier Roth, from France, where Mahler is rarely a specialty? You could also give the credit to the Philharmonie ...
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Was it the novelty of the medium -- the music was recorded live in a performance streamed online from the Philharmonie in Cologne -- that gave the electricity to this performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor? Was it the long familiarity of the Gürzenich Orchester Köln with the work (Mahler conducted the work's premiere with this ensemble in 1902)? Was it the unusual Mahler expertise of conductor François-Xavier Roth, from France, where Mahler is rarely a specialty? You could also give the credit to the Philharmonie audience, who maintained an impressively disciplined silence and let Harmonia Mundi's engineering team execute at a top level. You could point to all these larger trends, but at some point you have to just applaud the individual effort here: the precision of the brass in Mahler's quiet nature passages, the sparkling strings in the slow movement, and above all, the sweep of Roth's interpretation, which has a hundred carefully rendered details that cohere in grand gestures. The vast...
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