
Exploring the music of Mahler
Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
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What Is the Essence of Bernstein's Marlow?
Vladimir yarovsky's version of the hymn was recorded alive, and his main priority was the shape of that hymn. And i think if i had to choose one performance now, it might possibly be the orovski performance. It's full of tiny revelations where the conductor has not relied on the catalogue or traditions, but has simply heard it with fresh ears. There is a moment in bernstein's marlow which is perhaps as close as he came to ever writing an opera. But there's a great humanity about mala, but our place in nature, that is a great theme.
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