Mahler 8th Symphony


Who conducts your favorite performance of Mahler’s 8th Symphony?
I know it’s hard to get into and over all the counterpoint and screaming in Part I, but
who does that best?   
And how about the divine Part ll?  Who holds it together best?  
Of course SQ plays a big part in Mahler’s symphonies most especially in this one.  
You might want to comment on that as well.

I have an opinion, but I’d like to hear your’s first
 

 

 

 

 

rvpiano

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The art of musical performance is for me and for psycho-acoustics anyway still a mystery ...

This mystery is not a simple objective mystery as of many question in science which anyway are sometimes without end but at least the question can be clearly ask and the beginning of an answer given valuable for everyone ; spiritual questions in art are a mystery resembling a mysterious galaxy whose parts speak to someone but not to everyone , because nobody access all the mysteries meaningful  parts and planets but access  fully his own corresponding part ...

Wholeness is a speaking gestures who speak differently to each of us .... and each of us is a galaxy too ...

Then Solti is the one for you ....Bernstein for me ....😊