Authors: Lewis M. Smoley
ISBN-13: 9780313297717, ISBN-10: 0313297711
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
LEWIS M. SMOLEY is the author of The Symphonies of Gustav Mahler: A Critical Discography (Greenwood, 1986), a companion volume to this work.
Critically reviews all recordings of Mahler's symphonies released since 1986. Together with Smoley's earlier volume (1986), virtually every commercial recording ever released of Mahler's symphonies is discussed in an objective manner.
Reviews and rates recordings of Mahler's symphonies since 1986, including reissues and videotape recordings, and excluding most private recordings. Listings are in alphabetical order by last name of the conductor, and include names of orchestras, choruses, and soloists, as well as recording data, dates of issue, and total timings. Provides indices to conductors, orchestras, soloists, choruses, and record labels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Introduction | ||
Symphony No.1 in D Major ("Titan") | 1 | |
Symphony No.2 in C Minor ("Resurrection") | 33 | |
Symphony No.3 in D Minor | 59 | |
Symphony No.4 in G Major | 81 | |
Symphony No.5 in C-sharp Minor | 107 | |
Symphony No.6 in A Minor ("Tragic") | 141 | |
Symphony No.7 in E Minor ("Song of the Night") | 167 | |
Symphony No.8 in E-flat Major ("Symphony of a Thousand") | 189 | |
Das Lied von der Erde | 205 | |
Symphony No.9 in D Major | 225 | |
Symphony No.10 in F-sharp Major (Unfinished) | 255 | |
Biography | 268 | |
Index to Conductors | 269 | |
Index to Orchestras | 284 | |
Index to Soloists | 298 | |
Index to Choruses | 322 | |
Index to Record Labels | 334 |