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Live performance of Mahler's Symphony No.1

This was really something special.
Carnegie Hall, NDR Orchestra conducted by Cristoph von Dohnanyi, this was the best live classical music I have ever heard.

Program consisted of Georgy Ligeti's "Lontano", which was a really interesting piece, followed by Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto No.2 performed by Vadim Repin who was simply great, and then Mahler's Symphony No.1 and this is where the orchestra really displayed what they're capable of.

Great acoustics of Carnegie Hall, great musicians and a brilliant conductor made the Mahler sound like I have never heard before. It was purely magic.

I attended the performance of the 5th Symphony last month at Carnegie and it was excellent, but these guys topped it all.

Just wanted to share this and see if anyone else had attended this concert.

Now the bad part....my system doesn't even come close and I don't even know if a system capable of it exists.

There is nothing like a good live performance.
Nothing comes remotely near this kind of sound.
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Rcprince, Leipzig Gewandhaus conducted by Riccardo Chailly was very good playin Mahler's 5th couple of weeks ago, but Chailly, he slows things down a bit.
Enjoy the concert!

Dohnanyi's was probably the most dynamic interpretation of Mahler's 1st symphony.
Ludimagis, you definitely know what I'm talking about then.

I'll be waiting for the next time these guys show up. Anything they play, I'm there
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