Mahler recomposed by Matthew Herbert: Symphony X | CD review

Philharmonia Orchestra/Sinopoli (Deutsche Grammophon)The oddest, most audacious disc of the year? Matthew Herbert has taken Mahler's final completed orchestral movement, the adagio of his 10th symphony, and re-recorded it in various death-related venues – a coffin, a crematorium, Mahler's composing hut – mixing in sounds of nature, adding a viola solo. It is not so much a recomposition as a manipulation of an existing sound source (whose conductor is not around to object). "We filled the wo...

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