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摘要

We had a highly individual Mahler 9 with the Bamberg Orchestra under veteran conductor Herbert Blomstedt [HFN Nov '19]. He was then almost 91, whereas their current chief conductor Jacub Hrusa, is this year a mere 40. Trained in Prague he first came to the orchestra in 2015. As shown in the extensive PDF booklet, the players at the July 2020 sessions (producer Jan Smaczny) were spaced across the extended Konzerthall platform with a marginal reduction in string forces. The orchestra is given a quite distant balance, the vocalist centred in the finale - where her pitch accuracy impresses, although expressively her singing becomes properly interesting in the final section. Hrusa's reading is remarkable: the scherzo has never sounded so charmingly rustic, the retuned fiddle gradually tempered, while the slow movement suggests both innocence and inwardness. CB