Of a handful of recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan," to include the rejected Blumine, this rendition by Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is one of the more successfully thought-through, even though the use of the extra movement remains questionable. Whether or not this short Andante adds anything material to the symphony is secondary to how it serves -- or disserves -- the work's overall trajectory. Ordinarily, the first movement builds up a momentum that should push steadily on to the ...
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Of a handful of recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan," to include the rejected Blumine, this rendition by Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is one of the more successfully thought-through, even though the use of the extra movement remains questionable. Whether or not this short Andante adds anything material to the symphony is secondary to how it serves -- or disserves -- the work's overall trajectory. Ordinarily, the first movement builds up a momentum that should push steadily on to the robust Scherzo. However, with Blumine interjected between the first movement and the Scherzo, the energy seems dissipated too soon, and this pretty intermezzo becomes irrelevant to the work's structural and expressive needs. Yet Levi seems to make this idyll fit by taking the first movement's energy down a notch, and by using Blumine's sentimentality as a mood setter to a mellower Scherzo, keeps all three movements roughly in the same emotional world. This is a matter of taste, and many...
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