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Title: "Copping a free ride on Mahler's music"
Review: Please be careful before buying this one.I give it two stars only for the sake of the first half of the dvd: Attrazione d'amore. It is about 50 minutes of documentary on the interaction between the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Conductor Riccardo Chailly. It has some very good moments, but appears desultory, never settling down to state clearly its point.The second half, Luciano Berio's Voyage to Cythera, is like an old-fashioned analog radio, not tuned to the proper station. You hear snatches of Mahler's music, simultaneously accompanied by static, talking, and various loud noises that distract you from the Mahler.It really sounds to me like a pseudointellectual attempt to "cop a free ride" on Mahler's music, when one has no significant music to write on his own.If the title leads you (as it did me) to believe this dvd will expand your Mahler collection, then please borrow it from the library to try it before you buy it.
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