Friday, February 17, 2006

Mitropoulos Conducts Mahler

I was so happy to have received this CD set. Mitropoulos was the one who promoted Mahler in the US when the composer was relatively unknown in the 1950s. He was the chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic. I heard that his mahler was very inspiring because he started everything from scratch, without consulting anyone and any other materials. I only listened to the final movement of Sym No.9 last night, and I fount it very inspiring. My Mahler collection at home is nearly complete now - I nearly have the feeling that I don't need any more recordings and I can live with the collection I have for the rest of my life.

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