The Martinon/Chicago live recording made a few years earlier is quite well known and appreciated; this Paris performance is less widespread, but not less important. It's not so easy to find real continuity conducting a such vast work, but the French master does it very well - there are no flat or boring moments - doing justice to both the most delicate or intimate passages and the grandest ones, without exaggerations and extremisms but with all the necessary intensity. The stereo recording is good, although the sound is a little congested in the fortissimo.
All considered, a remarkable Third indeed.
(Of course thanks for all your interesting and kind comments, always appreciated!)
GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Hildegarde Ruetgers, mezzosoprano
Choeurs de I'ORTF, Maîtrise de I'ORTF
Orchestre National de I'ORTF (Radio France)
JEAN MARTINON
Paris, Live - October 3, 1973
FLAC - 6 separated files
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/7zovvah39yd4281/M3MART.zip/file
Thank you very much Guido. I have this performace on CD, and it is one of towering mastery. I was present at the March 25, 1967 CSO performance, and it remains unforgetable in my memory. I can see the orchestra on stage even today.
Always such wonderful music you share with us! Thanks!!!
Thank you Guido - marvellous!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot for this beautiful concert under Martinon who was Chief Conductor of the National ORTF orchestra; captivating performaning completing that with Chicago forces.
The concert took place at the 'Théâtre des Champs-Elysées'.
Here is a link to the printed programme:
https://www.tce-archives.fr/programme/orchestre-national-de-la-rtf-2
A great performance indeed. Thanks for this discovery!
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