Mahler: Symphony No. 6
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 6
MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
[ Sony Classical / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 7 November 2018
Without dispute, Teodor Currentzis is today's hottest & most sought after conductor-alongside his orchestra & choir MusicAeterna - "Move over, Simon Rattle: Teodor Currentzis is the maestro everyone's talking about", "The Greek-Russian conductor who has taken the classical music world by storm" (The Times). This is Currentzis's first ever recording of Mahler. Mahler's symphonies feature heavily in their tour programme - but this is the first time Currentzis has gone into the studio with this composer. His last recording of major symphony repertoire (Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6) won Japanese Recording Academy's highest accolade Gold Award, received 5-star reviews from The Times, NRC Handelsblad, a Diapason d'or award and was named in many top albums for 2017 including 'Best Classical Recording' in Spiegel Online and appeared on the New York Times 'Best Classical Music Recordings' for 2017.
"This will come as a shock to some, but his orchestra actually sounds better than many world-renowned ensembles. To begin with, individually, the instrumental contributions are more characterful. This is no routine playing and the winds and brass in all movements are a testament to this. Not to mention the uniformity of the strings, here antiphonally placed, never excessive but still weighty and finely sculpted (in a way reminiscent of Karajan). But it's not just all about great orchestral playing. Currentzis manages to bring out the musicality in a symphony where the term musicality doesn't sound so apt." TheHighArts.com
"Currentzis has drilled his orchestra, the string section especially, to a point where the playing would shame many of today's prestige ensembles. When it comes to the straightforward application of Mahler's indicated accents and articulation, the result is often thrilling. Take the start of the first movement. Has this march ever sounded more menacing or relentless? I think not. The performance is worth hearing for this alone." ClassicsToday
"There are passages here as phenomenal and white-hot as any I've heard in the Sixth Symphony: try the whiplash return to the hurly-burly after the high-pastures idyll at the centre of the first movement, or the build-ups to the first two hammer-blows as well as the welter of their aftermaths…The real drawback is the glassy patina over the sound." BBC Music
