Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer – Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ (2006) [nativeDSDmusic DSF DSD64/2.82MHz]

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ – Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (2006)
DSF Stereo DSD64, 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:22:19  minutes | 3,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: Palace of Arts, Budapest, September 2005

‘Resurrection’ (1894) is a gigantic work of enormous proportions, extreme contrasts, and a score that surpasses even his First Symphony from two years earlier. Ten horns, eight trumpets, two harps, organ, five percussionists, two vocal soloists (soprano and alto), as well as a large mixed chorus, fill the podium. And behind all this, invisible, is a ‘Fernorchester’ (distant orchestra) as a symbol of ‘the resurrection’. The work lasts for some 80 to 85 minutes, twice as long as Brahms’s Fourth or the Franck and D’Indy symphonies of the same period. And relative to a Haydn or Mozart symphony, there is a tripling in size. Only Bruckner approaches it in the length department with his Fifth and Eighth, each lasting about 75 minutes. But then Mahler, in this symphony, is dealing with the themes of life, death, and resurrection, and he took whatever space he felt that he needed. There is a strangely sharp contrast between the untroubled key of C major and the dark and turbulent contents of the work. It has been suggested that the theme of life, death, and resurrection was borne in on Mahler on the occasion of the funeral of the great conductor Hans von Bülow in 1894. In any case, the words of Klopstock that were read on that occasion are the same ones that Mahler used that year for the apotheosis (last movement) of his Second Symphony: “Aufersteh’n, ja aufersteh’n wirst du, mein Staub, nach kurzer Ruh unsterblich Leben wird der dich rief gegeben.” (Thou shalt arise, yes, arise, my dust, after a brief slumber, thou shalt be called to immortal life). And Mahler expanded the text further with his own words: “O glaube, mein Herz. Es geht dir nichts verloren. Dein ist was du gesehnt. Dein, was du geliebt, was du gestritten. O glaube: Du wardst nicht umsonst geboren. Hast nicht umsonst gelebt, gelitten.” (O have faith, my heart. Nothing shall be lost to thee. What thou hast longed for is thine. Thine remains, what thou hast loved, what thou hast battled for. O have faith: thou wast not born for nothing. Thou hast not suffered in vain.) From liner notes (Clemns Romijn)

Tracklist:
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 2 In C Minor ‘Resurrection’ (1894)
1. Allegro Maestoso 21:30
2. Andante Moderato 10:00
3. In Ruhig Fließender Bewegung 11:17
4. Urlicht: Sehr Feierlich, Aber Schlicht 4:52
5. Im Tempo Des Scherzo 34:13

Personnel:
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor
The Hungarian Radio Choir
Kálmán Strausz, chorus master
Lisa Milne, soprano
Birgit Remmert, alto

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