Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel
The excellent and the rather less good jostle alongside each other...No doubts about the finale, though: the pell-mell daylight rites sound like a Latin American carnival...The ending carries...
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel
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The excellent and the rather less good jostle alongside each other...No doubts about the finale, though: the pell-mell daylight rites sound like a Latin American carnival...The ending carries...
About
Gustavo Dudamel resumes his survey of the Mahler symphonies with this recording of the rare, mysterious 7th Symphony.
The 7th is a “symphony of everything”, says Dudamel, “from chaos to glory, sarcasm to tenderness, from a funeral march to a seductive tango. It is a cosmic symphony of perfect construction and galactic emotional scope.”
It was his triumph at the 2003 Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg that catapulted Gustavo Dudamel to international stardom, and the music of Mahler has remained central not only to his repertoire, but to his entire musical philosophy.
Over the last decade, Dudamel has grown along with his brothers and sisters from the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. No longer a band of Sistema “Wunderkinder”, the Venezuelan orchestra together with its charismatic conductor, has conquered the great festivals and concert halls of the world, energizing audiences and traditional symphonic repertoire through their musical commitment, inexorable sense of rhythm and passion.
Contents and tracklist
- Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
- Gustavo Dudamel
- Recorded: 2012-03-09
- Recording Venue: Centro de Acción Social por la Música, Sala Simón Bolivar, Caracas
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2014
The excellent and the rather less good jostle alongside each other...No doubts about the finale, though: the pell-mell daylight rites sound like a Latin American carnival...The ending carries the joy that only a live performance can bring. That merits four stars and a permanent place on the CD shelves.
11th October 2014
Dudamel conducts with a strong sense of colour and bursts of fire, but the orchestra’s virtuosity sounds hard-won. Admirers of what these young Venezuelans have achieved need not hold back, but the top Mahler orchestras just have this music in their bones.
October 2014
intellectual entertainment on an epic scale - which isn't to say Dudamel lacks emotional depth...Dudamel and his orchestra spin some very refined textures...Interesting at the start of the lovely second Nachtmusik how clearly Dudamel underlines the violas' appoggiatura and how effectively he traces the music's relatively subtle course.
