Leonard Bernstein Mahler Symphony Cycle Vinyl Box Set
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Brand new but not sealed. Beautiful box set to celebrate Bernstein at 100!
Leonard Bernstein became Mahler’s ambassador in the post-war world. He did more than just unveil the masterly craftsmanship of Mahler’s music. His performances situated Mahler in a full-blown universe of action, thought, feeling and music making never previously explored on this scale by a creative musician. The discovery was new and staggering. It catapulted Mahler to the pinnacle of worldwide recognition. It turned this ever-inquisitive, rambling composer into a classical figure of a stature that had hardly existed before. At the same time, Bernstein found, in Mahler’s uniqueness, a secret rapport with his own artistic inclinations, which Mahler’s music seemed virtually to foreshadow. He simply had to serve this composer, a man cut from the same cloth as himself. Sony Classical will now release Bernstein’s legendary recordings of the complete Mahler Symphonies with the New York Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra (plus the Kindertotenlieder with Jennie Tourel and Janet Baker) on LP, the format these recordings were made for, on 180g audiophile vinly. The set comes with the original facsimile sleeves and labels and the original liner notes plus an essay by the famous German writer on music Klaus Geitel.
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