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In the Thread: The best Third Movement from “Der Titan”

Post Subject: Bruno Walter comments...Posted by Axel on: 8/17/2009

that: "... this work, like the other symphonies of Mahler, has to be understood in no other sense than that of symphonic music and certainly not as a musical illustration of such emotions and imaginations as I have outlined. [as in the part of his earlier commenting as to be read on the back of the Columbia 1962 sleeve].

I feel he got it right on, as I feel his close rapport with Mahler until his death would have given him this sort of insight. It is for this reason that his rendering, and he obviously heard Mahler conducting the Symphony himself too, make the most 'sense' to me also. It sounds the most CLASSIC, and the least LATE ROMANTIC - fluffed out, gassy, dreamy, or what ever you which to call it - too fast or too slow.
Axel

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