{"id":9953,"date":"2024-06-27T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9953"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:35:26","slug":"mahler-symphony-no-2-and-musgrave-phoenix-rising","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/product\/mahler-symphony-no-2-and-musgrave-phoenix-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHLER SYMPHONY NO 2 AND MUSGRAVE \u201cPHOENIX RISING\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"product_title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MF-36_CD100_out_Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9954 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MF-36_CD100_out_Cover-600x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"602\" \/><\/a>Symphony No 2 and Musgrave \u201cPhoenix Rising\u201d<\/h1>\n<p class=\"price\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><bdi><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\">$<\/span>20.00<\/bdi><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\">\n<h2>This album is also available as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradomahlerfest.bandcamp.com\/album\/mahlerfest-xxxvi-mahler-symphony-no-2-and-musgrave-phoenix-rising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mp3 and hifi digital download via Bandcamp.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<h1>COLORADO MAHLERFEST XXXI<br \/>\n\u201cRise Again\u201d \u2013 May 17-21, 2023<\/h1>\n<h3><strong>DISC 1<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Thea Musgrave \u2013 Phoenix Rising (19:23)<\/h3>\n<h3>Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2<br \/>\n2. I. Allegro maestoso (23:02)<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Disc 2<\/strong><br \/>\n1. II. Andante moderato (10:18)<br \/>\n2. III. In ruhig flie\u00dfender Bewegung (10:31)<br \/>\n3. IV. Urlicht (5:11)<br \/>\n4. V. Im Tempo des Scherzos (35:40)<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9301 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_out-450x355.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_out-450x355.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_out-600x474.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_out-1536x1213.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_out.jpg 1836w\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/about-kenneth-woods-page\/\">Kenneth Woods<\/a>, conductor<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/april-fredrick-soprano\/\">April Fredrick<\/a>, soprano<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/mezzo-stacey-rishoi\/\">Stacey Rishoi<\/a>, mezzo-soprano<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/boulderchorale.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boulder Concert Chorale<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boulderchorale.org\/about-us\/dr-vicki-burrichter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Vicki Burrichter<\/a>, Artistic Director<br \/>\nColorado MahlerFest Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>Full festival\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MF36-2023-Program-Book-for-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program book avaliable here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recorded by Jonathan GalleEditing and mastering by Tim Burton<\/p>\n<p>RECORDED IN CONCERT May 21, 2023 | MACKY AUDITORIUM<br \/>\nBOULDER, COLORADO | \u00a9 2023 Colorado MahlerFest All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note \u2013 for environmental reasons, this item is not shrink-wrapped.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>This album is also available as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradomahlerfest.bandcamp.com\/album\/mahlerfest-xxxvi-mahler-symphony-no-2-and-musgrave-phoenix-rising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mp3 and hifi digital download via Bandcamp.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3952471691\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradomahlerfest.bandcamp.com\/album\/mahlerfest-xxxvi-mahler-symphony-no-2-and-musgrave-phoenix-rising\">MahlerFest XXXVI &#8211; Mahler Symphony No. 2 and Musgrave &#8220;Phoenix Rising&#8221; by Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra &#8211; Kenneth Woods, conductor<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9300\" src=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_in-450x357.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_in-450x357.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_in-600x475.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_in-1536x1217.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mahlerfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MF-36_CDT100_in.jpg 1835w\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"357\" \/>\u201cWoods\u2019 performance of Mahler 2 left no doubt that he is a major Mahler interpreter. I have heard cleaner performance of this work, but never one more convincing. The symphony suffered a long and tortuous gestation lasting some six years. The first movement is a funeral march, the second a Landler of sorts, the third a kaleidoscopic scherzo. After that, the piece goes its own way, with agonized words by Klopstock and Mahler, an opening of graves, a march of the dead, and a final paean of transcendence.<\/p>\n<p>This blazing sequence risks shattering under pressure into disconnected shards of brilliance. The opening march movement alone, some twenty minutes long, combines grief and fury with soaring intimations of serenity. Mahler asks that the fundamental speed change more than two dozen times. Woods\u2019 reading here embraced an exceptional range of mood and tempo. But a mighty Ur-pulse was sustained. The movement ends with a wasted tread, then a torrential scalar descent, then two pizzicato chords. Reading a sharply accented staccato triplet, Woods\u2019 violas (an exceptional group) more than honored the score; they enacted the dirge\u2019s culminating fatigue. The play of tempo in these closing measures was so keenly gauged that the silences told loudly and precisely. And so it was in the subsequent movements, with their many critical pauses; the trajectory remained organic. Midway through the pivotal mezzo-soprano solo \u2013 right at \u201cthe loving God will grant me light\u201d \u2014 the Boulder sun emerged, streaming through the high cathedral windows. An uncanny moment.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/2023\/05\/boulders-36th-mahlerfest-a-communal-labor-of-love.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joseph Horowitz, Unanswered Question<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This performance led by Kenneth Woods is gripping and the orchestra play the piece incisively and with great virtuosity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The orchestra is very fine indeed; not only is the playing exciting but in addition countless little nuances are observed, hugely to the music\u2019s benefit.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Woods unleashes the vast finale in thrilling fashion. His account of this huge movement is dramatic, as one would hope, and, crucially, he never loses sight of the overall structure.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Kenneth Woods conducts a very fine and exciting account of \u2018Resurrection\u2019 and his musicians respond to his galvanising and idiomatic direction with great skill and commitment.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/musicwebinternational.com\/page\/2\/\">John Quinn &#8211; MusicWeb International<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;There have been too many superfluous Mahler cycles, but this traversal is shaping up as one of the most worthwhile&#8230;\u00a0Six years in the writing, Mahler\u2019s Second Symphony fairly laid the basis for his reputation as a composer at its Berlin premiere in 1895. It is a measure of this performance that it captures something of the shock or excitement no doubt in evidence back then&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcana.fm\/2024\/07\/19\/mahler-musgrave-woods\/\">Richard Whitehouse, Arcana.FM<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;&#8230;it is hard not to be moved by a stirring performance of this majestic symphony, which is just what Maestro Woods and his assembled musicians deliver. Everything sounds balanced, tempos sound well-judged. It is a very good, very well-recorded performance.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalcandor.blogspot.com\/2024\/06\/colorado-mahlerfest-xxxvi-cd-review.html\">Karl Nehring, Classical Candor<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/product\/mahler-symphony-no-2-and-musgrave-phoenix-rising\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symphony No 2 and Musgrave \u201cPhoenix Rising\u201d $20.00 This album is also available as a\u00a0mp3 and hifi digital download via Bandcamp. Description COLORADO MAHLERFEST XXXI \u201cRise Again\u201d \u2013 May 17-21, 2023 DISC 1 1. Thea Musgrave \u2013 Phoenix Rising (19:23) Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 2. I. 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