Artist: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen
Album: Mahler: Works
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 02:04:23
Total Tracks: 14
Total Size: 1,26 GB

Tracklist:

1. London Philharmonic Orchestra – I. Langsam. Schleppend (15:21)
2. London Philharmonic Orchestra – II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (06:14)
3. London Philharmonic Orchestra – III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen (11:01)
4. London Philharmonic Orchestra – IV. Stürmisch bewegt (17:59)
5. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – I. Adagio (29:18)
6. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 1, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (04:01)
7. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 2, Ging heut morgen übers Feld (04:16)
8. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 3, Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer (02:25)
9. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 4, Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (05:10)
10. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 1, Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n (05:58)
11. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 2, Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (05:21)
12. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 3, Wenn dein Mütterlein (05:18)
13. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 4, Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen (04:03)
14. Vienna State Opera Orchestra – No. 5, In diesem Wetter (07:51)

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Hermann Scherchen was a figure of central importance in twentieth-century musical life, his continuing espousal of new music making him one of its foremost proponents in Europe. As a conductor he held a deep respect for the composer’s written text, for instance seeking to perform Beethoven’s symphonies at the tempi indicated in the manuscripts, an unusual practice for the time. Technically he believed that a conductor should commence work with an orchestra only when every aspect of a score had been completely memorised, and could be rehearsed from memory. Film of Scherchen conducting shows him to have possessed a very simple and clear beat. Yet he could summon up performances of raw power as well as of great character. He saw the conductor’s job very much as animating the music beyond the notes, writing in 1935, ‘A music devoid of any emotion, of any aesthetic pleasure or spiritual clarification may be of interest to the professional, but has no meaning whatsoever to the normal listener.’

On this classic record, he conducts Mahler’s mounmental 1st and 10th Symphonies at the head of the London Philharmonic Orchestra!