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Title: A colossal, vigorous and mercurial performance!
Review: All of us are aware of the close ties among Bruno Walter and Gustav Mahler. One could state that Walter was conceptually, an artist imbued into the spirit of XIX Century, that is why his art as conductor was multidimensional and like him Furtwangler, Casals, Toscanini, Weingartner, Walter Damsroch, Jasha Horenstein were men that grew up according the precepts of the art conceived as the final expression of an artistic journey where all the rest of artistic disciplines were melted.Hence, Walter understood the intrinsic value of musical phrase, as part of a superior conceptual unity. That explains the fact his readings about Mahler owned personality and conviction.This first belongs to that reduced genre of anthological performances. The New York philharmonic and Walter reached such level of mutual support and total rapport, due that spiritual chemistry so vital and demanded to achieve such kind of approach.A fundamental issue to collect.
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