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Mahler: Symphony No. 9.(Sound recording review)
Mahler: Symphony No. 9. Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin. Warner Classics 2564 64316-2.
Another Mahler Ninth. The man's continuing popularity goes unrestrained, probably because he offers so much, from the subtle to the grandiose, from the sublime to the bombastic. Certainly, the Ninth, Mahler's last completed symphony, contains a little of each, yet it does so in the most-moving manner of all his works. Which is what I missed most about Barenboim's new recording with the Staatskapelle Berlin. While every note is polished and in place, the whole failed to moved me.
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