Fine performance, but a bit of a swindle
Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker - Mahler review
By
nibor from London
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1st April 2008
Disc 1 is fine. I didn't much care for the Ades piece, but it's mercifully short. The Mahler is a fine performance with Rattle on top form, and followed by an interesting interview with the maestro. But I can't see the point of disc 2, which seems to consist of nothing but an audio performance of the symphony - no video, no intro, no extras, nothing - it might as well have been an audio CD. I didn't hear the performance through, and although the movements were listed at the beginning I couldn't access them individually. It was all or nothing. Disc 1 is all you need.
