Label: Exton
Format: SACD hybrid
Barcode: 4526977004507
Catalog number: OVCL 450
Releasedate: 22-07-11
Format: SACD hybrid
Barcode: 4526977004507
Releasedate: 22-07-11
After successful releases of Mahler symphonies Nos.1 (EXCL-00026) and 4 (EXCL-00048), this is the third volume featuring the third symphony as one of the culminations of this live recording series. Mr. Honeck, one of the best interpreters of the composer in our time, born in Austria and cultivating his music basics in Vienna, finds this symphony as a history of the Creation composed by Mahler. With enthusiastic, dedicated support from the orchestra musicians, Mr. Honeck successfully depicts this extraordinary symphony leaving no one in the audience as well as with the CD untouched.
- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is known for its artistic excellence and is credited with a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians
- With a long and distinguished history of touring both domestically and overseas since 1900, the PSO continues to be critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest orchestras
- Many condutors had a good relationship with this orchestra, like Victor Herbert, Victor Herbert, Frederic Archer , Otto Klemperer, Emil Paur, Elias Breeskin, Antonio Modarelli, Fritz Reiner, William Steinberg, Andre Previn, Loorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons and now of course Honeck!
- Manfred Honeck was appointed Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in January 2007
- Manfred Honeck also became the Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague in 2008, and in 2007, assumed the post of Music Director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart
- This cd recording is the first cooperation between Honeck and orchestra en it was so splendid that the orchestra later decided to appoint him as its music director for long lasting cooperation
- It was apparent for all involved that the chemistry between Honeck and this orchestra would be fruitful for the orchestra's history and future
- Mr.Honeck is one of the best interpreters of Mahler in our time
“Listening to Mahler's "Third" for the first time I was deeply impressed by the originality of the music. Today I am aware that there is much in this symphony that reminds me of my childhood, when I was allowed to spend my annual summer holidays on an idyllic Austrian Alp: the daily view of the impressive mountain tops, the lush green of the meadows, the breathtaking alpine flora, the way we used to fall asleep gently and naturally – there was no artificial light. Dozing off, once in a while one could hear brass band from an inn far away.
These are never-to-be-forgotten reminiscences which I feel Mahler composed into the music. He does not miss any opportunity, at least not in the first three movements, to capture nature in both its boundless beauty and ferocity. Even the post horn solo in the third movement, very sensitively played in our recording by the superb George Vosburgh, fits into the idyllic world of nature with its simplicity and its common touch. Nevertheless it can also be perceived as a yearning pronouncement of man, admittedly still pure and
innocent. My father used to serenade me with similar popular tunes on the zither, an instrument rarely played nowadays.
Like Joseph Haydn who described the formation of the world in his oratorio "The Creation" from the representation of chaos up to the making of animals and man, Mahler composed a history of creation. [......]
There is a certain structure to the symphony and the individual movements display a certain form, although there is not much of the typical sonata form in the first movement. The "Third" is one of those symphonies where the analytical takes a backseat. Arnold Schönberg wrote a letter to Gustav Mahler after a performance: "Maybe it is more important after all to feel, relive and experience this symphony than to understand it fully." (by Manfred Honeck)
These are never-to-be-forgotten reminiscences which I feel Mahler composed into the music. He does not miss any opportunity, at least not in the first three movements, to capture nature in both its boundless beauty and ferocity. Even the post horn solo in the third movement, very sensitively played in our recording by the superb George Vosburgh, fits into the idyllic world of nature with its simplicity and its common touch. Nevertheless it can also be perceived as a yearning pronouncement of man, admittedly still pure and
innocent. My father used to serenade me with similar popular tunes on the zither, an instrument rarely played nowadays.
Like Joseph Haydn who described the formation of the world in his oratorio "The Creation" from the representation of chaos up to the making of animals and man, Mahler composed a history of creation. [......]
There is a certain structure to the symphony and the individual movements display a certain form, although there is not much of the typical sonata form in the first movement. The "Third" is one of those symphonies where the analytical takes a backseat. Arnold Schönberg wrote a letter to Gustav Mahler after a performance: "Maybe it is more important after all to feel, relive and experience this symphony than to understand it fully." (by Manfred Honeck)
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1Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minorKräftig, Entschieden34:10
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1Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minorTempo di mu=inuetto, Sehr Mässig09:59
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2Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minorComodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast19:00
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3Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minorSehr Langsam. Misterioso10:00
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4Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minorLustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck04:11
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5Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minorLangsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden25:37