Music CD - Uri Caine: Mahler: Urlicht - Primal Light / Caine, Bensoussan, et al.

	Music CD: Mahler: Urlicht - Primal Light / Caine, Bensoussan, et al. Artist: Uri Caine List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.90 Your Save: $ 5.08 ( 25% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Winter & Winter
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Tracks: 1. Sym No.5: Funeral March 2. The Boy's Magic Horn: The Drummer Boy 3. Songs Of The Death Of Children: Now Will The Sun Rise As Brightly 4. Songs Of The Death Of Children: I Often Think They Have Merely Gone Out! 5. Sym No.1 'Titan': 3rd Movt 6. Sym No.2 'Resurrection': Primal Light 7. Songs Of A Wayfarer: I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside/Resurrection, Sym No.2:... 8. Sym No.5: Adagietto 9. The Song Of The Earth: The Drunkard In Spring 10. The Boy's Magic Hn: Who Thought Up This Song 11. The Song Of The Earth: The Farewell
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025091000425 Label: Winter & Winter Manufacturer: Winter & Winter Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Winter & Winter Release Date: 1998-06-23 Studio: Winter & Winter
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Amazing interpretation of Resurrection Symphony No. 2/Primal Light Comment: I've owned this album for years and I still come back to this piece as one of the best interpretations of the Resurrection symphony out there. It captures perfectly the dissonance that Mahler was trying to convey in this symphony in a striking, innovative way and I think he would have approved. Customer Rating: Summary: jaw-dropping interpretation of Mahler Comment: I am a Mahler fan - and I don't like jazz! So I was rather nervous at listening to this first time around. But I found it simply stunning. The resurrection symphony slow movement, complete with screeching solo violin emulating a searingly distorted electric guitar was, in fact, profoundly moving. And the sheer musicianship of the performers, in the more sensitive sections earned my utmost respect. This album is shocking, unbearable, gripping, lighthearted, exciting, mocking, reverential, tender - everything Mahler was. Fantastic buy! Customer Rating: Summary: Mahler revered Comment: On his 1997 release Urlicht / Primal Light, Uri Caine took some of Gustav Mahler's most famous compositions, and, well, jazzed them up, with some of the most prominent musicians on the downtown New York scene, including Dave Douglas and Joey Baron. What still surprises me about this beautiful album is just how faithful Caine is to Mahler. Unlike his later Goldberg Variations, this isn't Mahler deconstructed, it's Mahler revered, in a small group jazz (and at times, thanks to Don Byron , klezmer) setting. It makes perfect sense -- if some of the greatest jazz performances have come from mediocre show tunes, why not use symphonies and lieder as a starting point for improvisation? Customer Rating: Summary: Uri Caine's mutiny against Mahler Comment: I've been a big Mahler fan since Bernstein's first recording (4th Symphony) as well as a knowledgeable follower of jazz. These pieces are grotesque caricatures of Mahler melodies and while I have not heard Caine's other depredations, after listening to this one I think I'll pass. If this is something released after a jam session that somehow was rescued from the cutting room floor, my apologies. But Mahler's melodies do not belong in a setting like this and who is Caine to try to improve on Mahler's orchestrations? Save your money. Customer Rating: Summary: raw, gritty and fertile freshly tilled earth Comment: it's not pure as in so many anally treated works of Mahler. admittedly i am not interested in listening to see if the sonority of the instruments is perfect to some pompous standard, and it's not but there is another dedication here and an unmeasurable energy. i love the youthfulness of this work. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: This auspicious, surprising, release debuted the Winter & Winter imprimatur, which carries on German producer Stefan Winter's longstanding role in blurring musical boundaries, as he did for so many years with the jazz label JMT. Pianist Uri Caine, known mainly for playing in the polystylistic mode of New York's downtown jazz scene, steeped himself in Mahler's music in preparation for the 1995 series of concerts leading up to this CD. Caine's ensemble--14 members strong, at points--recasts portions of Mahler's symphonic cloudbursts into a setting that smacks of klezmer, jazz, and crazy combinations of the scores' lavish bombastics. It's clear that Mahler's works tested the boundaries of so many available sounds at the turn of the century, from cantors to martial brass to Wagnerian bulk. Caine attempts it all, succeeding most somberly in the sections based on the Resurrection Symphony and most clangorously in the First Symphony's third movement, transformed into a serious klezmer bash by Caine, clarinetist Don Byron, and drummer Joey Baron. --Andrew Bartlett