MAHLER SYMPHONY no.3-Ⅲ,Ⅳ,Ⅴ,Ⅵ L.BLECH cond. STOCKHOLM PHIL. 1944live

[@robertwayne3561]

Listening now. Sound quality is pretty good! BTW the mezzo is Lorri Lail.

[@remomazzetti8757]

Excellent performance! I hope the first two movements appear someday.

[@robertwayne3561]

I understand that the second movement exists but there's just a fragment of the first.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

Yeah. Blech. Mahler 3. Stockholm. 1944. Look, I know that ww2 was more complicated than Hollywood made it out to be, but wtf?

[@robertwayne3561]

Complicated, indeed! A Jewish conductor still working in Berlin in 1937 travels to conduct in Riga. German press announces his retirement and he's barred from re-entering Germany. In 1941, Riga is under German control, and Blech is allowed to go to Stockholm by Goering's intervention. Hollywood could have made this movie.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

@@robertwayne3561 No. Hollywood could not have made this up. The truth is complicated. Hollywood is propaganda. Propaganda is simple. Nazi, Soviet, Allied, Israeli propaganda, it's all over simplified. Like chatbots. Which is why I hate all propaganda and I hate all chatbots. And I'm all but certain that the above recording is totally utterly spurious. Fuuuukin A.

[@Piddo72]

@@ilirllukaci5345 I compliment you because you mix music with politics which is something you should never do but if you want to get angry you do it. In any case the recording is authentic it is not fake because you think so, Leo Blech was actually recorded in Stockholm in Mahler's symphony n.3.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

@@Piddo72 I have to listen to it then. It would be an interesting statement. Nietzsche's Midnight Song at that moment. Did you know that Carlos Kleiber was an admirer of Leo Blech? This makes sense to me.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

I have to ask. You seem to be an authority. Was Allen Pettersson playing viola in the orchestra then? I have always suspected that Wilhelm Furtwängler the composer of the second symphony was an influence in Pettersson's formative youth during during Furtwängler's visits to Stockholm. The fact that Furtwängler had such distaste for Stockholm's democratic climate only reinforces my theory. Politics and music again.