Mahler: Symphony No.1 – review

Baltimore Symphony/Alsop (Naxos)Acknowledged during his life as one of the all-time greats, Italian conductor Guido Cantelli was killed, aged only 36, in a plane crash in Paris in 1956. His discography was small, so this release of a BBC broadcast of one of his Philharmonia concerts at the 1954 Edinburgh festival is of tremendous importance. Cantelli made commercial recordings of all three works, though there's an added edge to hearing him conduct them live. He deploys larger forces in Schumann'...

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