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Mahler Pioneers

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Label: Somm

Cat No: ARIADNE50222

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 28th July 2023

Contents

Artists

Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Norma Procter (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Goldsmiths Choral Union
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Hermann Scherchen
Walter Goehr

Works

Mahler, Gustav

Das klagende Lied (revised 1898 version)
Symphony no.4 in G major
Symphony no.10 in F sharp major (Adagio)

Artists

Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Norma Procter (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Goldsmiths Choral Union
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Hermann Scherchen
Walter Goehr

About

SOMM Recordings announces Volume 1 of Mahler Pioneers, a major addition to the Mahler catalogue with first commercial releases of historic performances of Das klagende Lied, Symphony no.4, and the Adagio from the Tenth Symphony.

The two-disc set also features interviews with conductor Leopold Stokowski and former New York Philharmonic Orchestra timpanist Alfred Friese about their memories of Mahler in rehearsal.

Recorded live in London's Royal Festival Hall on 13 May 1956, Das klagende Lied is heard in its first-ever British performance with Walter Goehr conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Goldsmiths Choral Union and three luxury soloists: soprano Joan Sutherland - most probably the only known document of her singing Mahler - tenor Peter Pears, and contralto Norma Procter.

Symphony no.4 was performed by Goehr, again with the LSO, and soprano Teresa Stich-Randall on 9 February 1960 as part of that year's Mahler centenary celebrations. Before the year was out, the committed Mahlerian Goehr was dead. The Tenth Symphony's Adagio dates from 21 November 1948, with Hermann Scherchen conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, anticipating Scherchen's recorded survey of Mahler's symphonies in the 1950s.

Two revealing, never before issued interviews with Stokowski in 1970 and Friese in 1962, offer candid recollections of encounters with Mahler. Mahler Pioneers has been curated by historic recordings specialist Jon Tolansky, who also provides insightful and authoritative booklet notes.

SOMM’s reputation for historic recordings is unmatched, its four-volume Vaughan Williams Live series (ARIADNE5016, 5018, 5019-2, 5020), Beecham Conducts Sibelius (5013) and R. Strauss (5021) garnering widespread acclaim.

Previous Mahler recordings on SOMM include Das Lied von der Erde with Kathleen Ferrier, and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter (ARIADNE5007), and Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Orchestra of the Swan (SOMMCD0109).

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