マーラー: 交響曲第5番

ラニクルズ指揮、グランド・ティトン音楽祭管弦楽団によるマーラー第5番ライヴ

グランド・ティトン音楽祭管弦楽団による、マーラー《交響曲第5番》のライヴ録音。収録はウォーク・フェスティヴァル・ホールで行われ、音楽監督サー・ドナルド・ラニクルズが指揮を務めています。
グランド・ティトン音楽祭は、アメリカのワイオミング州にあるグランド・ティトン国立公園の麓の街ジャクソンを中心に毎年夏に行われる音楽祭で、北米および欧州の84を超えるオーケストラ、約72の教育機関から集まる250名以上の演奏家で構成され、ニューヨーク・タイムズの「全米トップ10音楽祭」、BBCMusic Magazine の2020年"Festival Choice"に選出されています。
指揮者サー・ドナルド・ラニクルズは、ロマン派～後期ロマン派のレパートリーで高い評価を受け、グランド・ティトン音楽祭(2005～)、ドイツ・オペラ・ベルリン(2009～)の音楽監督を務めています。
REFERENCE RECORDINGS

Celebrating its 65th season in 2026, the Grand Teton Music Festival brings together more than 200 professional musicians every summer from across North America and Europe. Ushering in this anniversary is this recording of Mahlers Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor from the 2024 festival. This marks the second time festival music director Sir Donald Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra have appeared on the Reference Recordings label, following a 2023 recording of piano concertos by Beethoven backing Garrick Ohlsson. Runnicles tempos throughout are conventional, which seems well-suited to the collective orchestra as it keeps the flow of this massive and imposing symphony moving forward without feeling rushed at any point. Consider the famed Adagietto movement, where Runnicles doesnt lean too far into the "Sehr Langsam" ("very slowly") marking, as many others have. Coming in at just over ten minutes, it lands right in the middle of the fastest (Mahler himself at just over seven minutes) and the slowest (Haitink at nearly 14 minutes). The musicians have plenty of room to breathe and convey the emotional depth of this instrumental love poem without turning it into a dirge. The lengths that Reference went through in making this recording are evident right from the start with the clarity of the trumpet call from principal Thomas Hooten and especially in the pizzicato section of the Scherzo third movement, where listeners will undoubtedly feel as if they are sitting on-stage in the middle of the string sections. A solid outing from this veteran conductor and his orchestra from Walk Festival Hall at the base of Rendezvous Mountain. ~ Keith Finke