Otmar Suitner & Staatskapelle Berlin - Mahler: Symphony No.5 & Songs (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Symphony No. 5: I. Trauermarsch in gemessenem Schritt - Streng - Wie ein Kondukt
02. Symphony No. 5: II. Stürmisch bewegt - Mit größter Vehemenz
03. Symphony No. 5: III. Scherzo - Kräftig, nicht zu schnell
04. Symphony No. 5: IV: Adagietto - sehr langsam
05. Symphony No. 5: V. Rondo - Finale - Allegro - Allegro giocoso
06. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 11a, Revelge
07. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 1, Der Schildwache Nachtlied
08. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 12a, Der Tamboursg'sell
09. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 8, Lied des Verfolgten im Turm
10. Rückert-Lieder: No. 3, Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
11. Rückert-Lieder: No. 1, Ich atmet' einen linden Duft
12. Rückert-Lieder: No. 4, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
13. Rückert-Lieder: No. 5, Um Mitternacht
14. Rückert-Lieder: No. 2, Liebst du um Schönheit



With his Viennese background, Suitner brought something authentic and credible with him. Memories are still vivid in the minds of contemporaries when asked about recordings that were made over thirty years ago. Such recordings must have made a lasting impression on those involved, including Lothar Friedrich (long-standing violinist of the Berlin Staatskapelle), who is quoted above. This 1986 double LP release by the East German label Eterna, featuring works by Gustav Mahler, is certainly no exception. The main work, the Fifth Symphony, once a groundbreaking success for the composer, is joined by songs from the anthology Des Knaben Wunderhorn (the boys magic horn). The interpreters: baritone Siegfried Lorenz, the Staatskapelle Berlin and Otmar Suitner. Suitner, the conductor who died in Berlin in 2010, was Austrian, a fact that may be key to understanding why this record was ever made at all. Suitner was general music director of the Berlin State Opera on Unter den Linden from 1974 until 1991 and thus directed the Berlin Staatskapelle at the same time. He was very relaxed, not over-focussed a fantastic conductor, always at ease and enthusiastic. These songs needed an orchestra that produces pure expression, said singer Siegfried Lorenz about the recording of the Wunderhorn lieder with Otmar Suitner. The longtime violinist of the Berlin Staatskapelle, Lothar Friedrich, adds regarding the Fifth Symphony: When I listen to the recording now, I feel vindicated. Suitner struck an excellent balance between his emotional side on the one hand and his intellectual approach on the other.

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