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- Pierre Boulez takes a fresh approach to Mahler’s much-recorded Fourth Symphony. Eschewing the received Mahlerian style, Boulez instead views this echt-18th century work composed at the close of the 19th from the perspective of our 20th century embarking on the 21st, thus infusing this reading with modern sensibility.
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Pierre Boulez takes a fresh approach to Mahler’s much-recorded Fourth Symphony. Eschewing the received Mahlerian style, Boulez instead views this echt-18th century work composed at the close of the 19th from the perspective of our 20th century embarking on the 21st, thus infusing this reading with modern sensibility.
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In his booklet notes, Mahler biographer Henry-Louis de La Grange states that the Fourth Symphony was the result of Mahler's desire to write with "clarity, economy and transparency". This is how Boulez conducts - and he leads a quite wonderful performance.
Apr 10, 2009 · In a long movement such as, for example, the last movement of the Sixth Symphony, it is certainly not enough to say “I can feel the emotion”. Mahler worked extremely hard and made an enormous effort to transcribe and organise his ideas and to render them effective.
Nothing is forced or self-indulgent; Boulez's hand can be felt in this music-making, supporting but not pushing. He does much to keep Mahler's textures airy, and even lightly scored passages are revealed to have harmonic intriguing ambiguities that are obscured in other recordings. The orchestra responds to every gesture with infinite sensitivity.
The second movement continues Boulez's general approach but deepens the music with superb woodwind solos from the Cleveland players caught by the fine recorded balance. What we hear in the third movement is remarkable for its lack of pretension and its stress on classical poise.
Oct 15, 2010 · Boulez has conducted many of the Mahler symphonies in Chicago, though, oddly, he has recorded the entire cycle with top orchestras elsewhere. As illuminating and clarifying as Boulez’s objectivist approach can be in music of Bartok, Debussy and Stravinsky, his Mahler remains controversial.
May 10, 2009 · Pierre Boulez made the Staatskapelle Berlin sound like a different orchestra from the one heard in Daniel Barenboim’s performance of Mahler’s First Symphony.
