tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4153181934109531160..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: If you like Mahler - and who doesn't? - try thisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-13099390853017814932011-12-15T18:02:52.652+00:002011-12-15T18:02:52.652+00:00Arnold's 5th may descend from Mahler, but, hav...Arnold's 5th may descend from Mahler, but, having just listened to his 1st, I believe it descends from Berlioz. Thoughts?Bodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05970235434240735092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-39690717526876871792010-12-10T20:48:40.049+00:002010-12-10T20:48:40.049+00:00Nick, no pedantry at all. I had my wires crossed i...Nick, no pedantry at all. I had my wires crossed in that section and many thanks for straightening them out. No excuse as I had the EMI LP in front of me as I typed - it has one of those awful HMV Greensleeve cover designs. But the error has now been corrected in the post and I am grateful to you for pointing it out.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-45578335239848925452010-12-10T20:38:15.676+00:002010-12-10T20:38:15.676+00:00Sorry to be a pedant - the Arnold conducted versio...Sorry to be a pedant - the Arnold conducted version of the 5th is with the CBSO (originally coupled on the LP with the Cornish Dances and the Peterloo Overture)and Groves conducts the BSO in the 2nd (originally coupled with the English Dances as I recall. Arnold's own recording of the 2nd was in pick-up session with the LPO. But in essence you are quite right the 5th is wonderful but the 9th is a masterpiece as yet unacknowledged generally.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09796782005917831269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-21319750538757543072010-12-09T14:52:02.728+00:002010-12-09T14:52:02.728+00:00'...it seems - this year - to have become the ...<i>'...it seems - this year - to have become the default critical position on this overplayed composer'.</i><br /><br />Interesting comment, let me explain. The first version of this post was written some weeks ago when BBC Radio 3's Mahler fest was at its peak, and that original version started with these words:<br /><br />"Here in the UK we currently have wall to wall Mahler to the detriment of many other fine composers."<br /><br />Before uploading I decided that it was better to let the Malcolm Arnold advocacy speak for itself and the opening was axed. Which I am not sure was the right decision.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-8261573650919353272010-12-09T12:12:50.440+00:002010-12-09T12:12:50.440+00:00When I saw the headline, I assumed it was a paraph...When I saw the headline, I assumed it was a paraphrase of that line from Willy Russell's "Educating Rita": "Wouldn't you simply DIE without Mahler?!"<br /><br />Originally intended as a satirical comment on precious, emotionally incontinent wallowing in a then (1980) fashionably "difficult" composer, it seems - this year - to have become the default critical position on this overplayed composer.Halldorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003785622088730831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-29632307074698371452010-12-08T22:28:30.905+00:002010-12-08T22:28:30.905+00:00Hello, there is a film called "Aimez-vous Bra...Hello, there is a film called "Aimez-vous Brahms?" (Do You Like Brahms?), the English title was Goodbye Again (1961)<br />http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054936/<br /><br /><br />ps: I LOVE MAHLER :)Seymourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09782636918483586205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-34800942198929095292010-12-07T21:32:30.204+00:002010-12-07T21:32:30.204+00:00A regular reader has emailed the following:
That&...A regular reader has emailed the following:<br /><br /><i>That's bugging me- the headline to your last post. I'm sure that's from dialogue in a movie but i can't place it. I remeber seeing a scene in some movie where a girl asks the star "Do you like Mahler? and he replies "Yeah, who doesn't?" Maybe not.</i><br /><br />I'm not aware of that quote from a movie. In fact my headline was inspired by the Amazon 'if you like this you'll like that' meme. But that's not to say it did not appear in a film. Can any readers help?<br /><br />This headline has provoked more discussion than any other. There was quite a bit of agonising before it was posted about the correct punctuation for when a rhetorical question appears in the middle of a sentence, as it does in that headline. The punctuation actually used is not mine, it comes from a friend whose grammatical and musical knowledge I am quite happy to defer to.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-84704761723171025772010-12-07T17:19:12.465+00:002010-12-07T17:19:12.465+00:00Email received:
I never liked Mahler.
When I was...<i>Email received:</i><br /><br />I never liked Mahler.<br /><br />When I was a teenager I heard his music for the first time. I didn’ t like it. I liked renaissance music, baroque, the great classical composers, only partly 19th century, and most of all Stravinsky, Berio, etc. Beside – later – pop & jazz.<br /><br />Later I kept having the same appreciation. Mahler: who understands that music? You just run away from it. <br /><br />And now, after so many books about his “ World famous” wife ( ie a bitch) I understand why. The poor Mahler guy….<br /><br />See amongst other books: the best <br /><br />http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/18425.html <br /><br />There’ s also a EN translation. Or it was written in EN. I don’t know. <br /><br />Ok, this was about the old Bagehot ( The Economist ) trich “ simplify & exaggerate”. However it’s true. <br /><br />BTPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com