Title: Angels decending from heaven
Review: My usual commute wouldn't allow anything more than the first movement. Thanks to the accident/construction, one day my commute took unusally longer which allowed me to sit tight in my car and listen the entire CD. When it was over, I was in tears because it was so beautiful and inspriational. I am fairly new to Mahler and I don't have any bias or expectation on how this symphony should be played. But I know good music when I can hear it and I absolutely love this album. Not only it sounded killer (I have a high end car stereo) and the performance was spectacular, especially the choral part at the last movement was out of this world. I almost saw Angels decending from the Heaven.As a life long Wagnerian, I am very familiar with Solti so I purchased his 1972 CSO recording. Solti was usual himself in that album. However, everytime I want to listen to M8, Shaw/ASO M8 is the one I play. Since then I got M2 by Levi/ASO, which was also a killer. I highly recommend that too.
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