Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Movie - 168mins
Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wiener Philharmoniker in the mid-1970s when he was at the peak of his career. Humphrey Burton's direction is, as always, very fine, giving the viewer/listener both the larger picture and highlighting individual soloists, players or groups of musicians and, of course, the maestro. The video and audio tracks show their age, but are quite acceptable even for today's standards. Bernstein's Seventh is everything one could desire: dark and spooky, highly sensual, but also structurally strong and assertive where needed. Bernstein's reading does not gloss over breakdowns in tonality and the foreshadowing of later musical developments.
Cast:
Agnes
Baltsa
Kenneth
Riegel
Hermann
Prey
José
van
Vienna
Philharmonic
Leonard
Bernstein
Edda
Moser
Judith
Blegen
Gerti
Zeumer
Ingrid
Mayr
Agnes
Baltsa
Kenneth
Riegel
Hermann
Prey
José
van
Vienna
Philharmonic
Leonard
Bernstein
Edda
Moser
Judith
Blegen
Gerti
Zeumer
Ingrid
Mayr