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Title: Scherchen's Resurrection
Review: Hermann Scherchen has a fluctuating reputation among Mahlerites. Some think very highly of SOME of his interpretations (e.g., the Vienna or Toronto no. 7, and the Vienna or Leipzig no. 3), but others consider them to be too adventurous and deviant when compared with Mahler's score.This recording, however, provides one of Scherchen's best Mahler interpretations caught on a disc: the studio 1959 Vienna take of symphony no. 2. It is as adventurous as one could expect from Scherchen, but this works well with the "sense of drama" that this symphony requires in order to be really successful.Recording quality is acceptable as an early stereo take, but strings are quite weak (too few).This interpretation exist in many incarnations, most of them hard to find since they are deleted from the catalogue.
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