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MAHLER Symphony No. 1 ADAM FISCHER Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) MAHLER Symphony No. 1 ADAM FISCHER (1860-1911) Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 D-Dur / in D Major 1 I. Langsam. Schleppend. Wie ein Naturlaut – Im Anfang sehr gemächlich 15:31 2 II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell 07:43 3 III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen 10:04 4 IV. Stürmisch bewegt 19:51 Total Time 53:01 Düsseldorfer Symphoniker Adam Fischer conductor Mahler Edition Vol. III Based on live recordings (10 - 12 February 2017) | Recording Location: Tonhalle Düsseldorf / Germany Executive Producer: Jochen Hubmacher | Recording Producer: Holger Urbach | Recording Engineer: Michael Morawietz Editing, Mix & Mastering: HOLGER URBACH MUSIKPRODUKTION, RATINGEN www.humusic.de Publisher: Kalmus | www.tonhalle.de | www.dradio.de | www.avi-music.de g 2017 Deutschlandradio / Avi-Service for music P 2017 Avi-Service for music, Cologne/Germany | LC 15080 All rights reserved | STEREO | DDD | GEMA | Made in Germany | 42 6008553653 5 | Fotos: © Susanne Diesner Eine Co-Produktion mit Translations: Stanley Hanks | Design: www.BABELgum.de Adam Fischer: Subjektive Gedanken über Mahler und die 1. Symphonie 29 Jahre war Gustav Mahler alt, als seine Erste Symphonie uraufgeführt wurde. Ich fühle mich diesem Uraufführung im November 1889 schrieb er dann: „In Budapest, wo ich sitze und die Symphonie 29jährigen Mahler, der damals Direktor der Ungarischen Staatsoper in Budapest war, aus ganz persön - uraufführte, wichen mir die Freunde scheu aus, keiner wagte, mit mir über die Aufführung zu sprechen. lichen Gründen sehr nah verbunden. 120 Jahre später sollte nämlich auch ich Generalmusikdirektor Ich ging wie ein Kranker oder Geächteter umher.“ Wer die Mentalität der Budapester kennt, weiß dieses Opernhauses werden. Und wir beide haben nach zweieinhalb Jahren das Haus fluchtartig ver - ganz genau, was er meinte. Es tut mir heute noch richtig weh, dass die damalige Budapester Musikwelt lassen ... so viele Beckmesser und so wenige Hans Sachse hervorgebracht hat. Wenn ich lese, wie sich die Behörden damals in Mahlers Arbeit eingemischt und für eine Unfreiheit der Ich war aber nicht nur in Budapest, sondern vorher auch als GMD in Kassel Mahlers „Nachfolger“. Er Kunst gesorgt haben, dann kann ich Mahlers damalige verbitterte Gefühle über das Land und seine hat in Kassel die Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen geschrieben, deren Melodien dann in die erste Oper aus ganzem Herzen nachvollziehen! Diese Erfahrung verbindet mich mit ihm für immer ... Symphonie eingegangen sind. Wenn ich unter den Kasseler Bäumen spazieren gegangen bin, konnte ich mir einbilden, dass Mahler dort Inspiration zur Ersten gesucht hatte. Dabei waren seine Probleme dort teilweise anderer Natur. Die damals neue Oper (sie wurde 1884 Und auch in den beiden großen Häusern, die für Mahlers Laufbahn entscheidend waren, durfte ich eröffnet) hat viel gekostet, und das dafür nötige Geld konnte nur mit der hehren nationalen Bedeutung seinen Spuren folgen. Ich habe auch in Wien und an der MET in New York dirigiert. Ich bin stolz des Hauses gerechtfertigt werden. Das hieß, eine gute Aufführung allein war nicht genug, die Oper darauf, so oft und überall in der Welt am gleichen Pult wie Mahler dirigieren zu können. Mahlers musste nationale Aufwallungen hervorrufen. Sie musste also nicht gut, sondern vor allem national Musik ist auch deshalb „meine“ Musik. Das ist sicher eine Illusion, aber eine schöne, die ich mir nicht werden. Es war klar, dass der geniale Künstler Mahler, der noch dazu Ausländer war, da scheitern nehmen lassen möchte. musste. Noch eine persönliche Erinnerung an meine erste Erste möchte ich erzählen. Ich habe Mahlers Musik Heute ist das sicher anders. Aber auch ich habe 120 Jahre später Anrufe von Politikern bekommen, überhaupt zum ersten Mal live mit der ersten Symphonie erlebt. Das war in Wien, und ich war 19 die mich, für sie wie ganz selbstverständlich, in Fragen von Künstlerengagements „beraten“ wollten. Jahre alt. Es war auch ein prägendes Erlebnis. Damals habe ich das erste Mal darüber nachgedacht, ob Man hat dort nicht einmal verstanden, warum ich mich darüber dann so aufgeregt habe. Ich konnte eine sinngemäße statt einer buchstabengetreuen Befolgung der Intentionen eines Komponisten unter mich dabei Mahler sehr nahe fühlen ... Umständen nicht auch falsch sein kann. Wir hatten uns damals im Studium mit Mahler beschäftigt, ich hatte die Partitur vorher studiert. Mit großen Erwartungen bin ich zum Konzert gegangen, wo mir Mahler hatte von der Uraufführung der Ersten Symphonie in Budapest erwartet, dass das Werk ein gleich auffiel, dass die Musiker sich um die berühmten unorthodoxen Anweisungen Mahlers, um durchschlagender Erfolg wird, der dazu führt, dass er als Komponist endgültig anerkannt wird. Nach der seine ungewöhnlich erscheinenden Bogenstriche oder seine Vorschrift an die Bläser, mit hochgehaltenen 3 Adam Fischer: Subjective reflections on Mahler and his First Symphony Schalltrichter zu spielen, nicht besonders zu kümmern schienen. Während des Finales wurde das dann Gustav Mahler premiered his First Symphony at the age of 29. For personal reasons I feel a close bond für alle ganz offensichtlich. Mahler schreibt dort vor, „alle Hornisten stehen auf um die möglichst with that 29-year-old Musical Director of the Hungarian State Opera. 120 years later, I was named größte Schallkraft zu erzielen!“. Die Wiener Hörner blieben aber die ganze Zeit sitzen. Ich bin nachher General Music Director of the same opera house. We both hastily abandoned the institution after zu den Musikern gegangen und habe einen Herrn aus der Gruppe gefragt, warum sie nicht 2 1/2 years. „Schalltrichter hoch“ gespielt hätten und warum sie nicht aufgestanden seien. Er sagte, etwas aufge - bracht, „Hören's, mir san doch ned im Zirkus!!“ When I read how the authorities interfered in Mahler’s work and curtailed his artistic freedom, I can fully grasp how bitter he felt about the country and its opera house. Through that experience I feel Das war noch vor der großen Mahler-Renaissance der siebziger Jahre. Später haben Musiker wahr- connected with him forever. scheinlich nicht mehr so offen zugegeben, dass sie Mahlers Spielanweisungen oft als störend, sogar beleidigend empfinden. Sie empfinden sie aber oft so, und das ist auch verständlich. Hätte Mahler in His problems were partly due to other reasons. Just opened in 1884, the opera house had cost an inor - die Partitur geschrieben, „falls die Hörner nicht die nötige Schallkraft erreichen können, sollten sie dinate sum, and the necessary funds could only be justified by evoking its noble national significance. aufstehen“, wäre das psychologisch richtiger gewesen, und man hätte wohl (auch mit sitzenden In other words: it wasn’t enough to put on a good performance: the opera in Budapest was expected to Hörnern) eine ungeheure Schallkraft erreicht. Hörner können ja schließlich auch im Sitzen laut spark a surge of national sentiment. It was not just supposed to be good, it had to be national. In this spielen. Bringt das Aufstehen praktisch tatsächlich etwas? Einmal habe ich sogar bei einer späteren context, a brilliant artist such as Mahler – who was also a foreigner – would be clearly destined to fail. Aufführung erlebt, wie ein junger, aufgeregter Unglücksrabe aus der Horngruppe beim schnellen Aufstehen das Notenpult umgeworfen hat. Wie die Hornisten dann die Stelle verzweifelt gekrümmt, Today things are certainly different. But I, too, received telephone calls from politicians who found it nach den auf dem Boden liegenden Noten suchend, versucht haben, zu spielen – das war sicher nicht quite natural to “advise” me in matters of artist engagements. People didn’t even understand why this die größtmögliche Schallkraft. made me so incensed. Those were moments when I felt very close to Mahler in my thoughts. Und trotzdem bin ich heute überzeugt, dass die Hornisten beim Finale aufstehen müssen, genau nach Mahlers Vorstellungen. Denn letztlich geht es nicht nur darum, wie laut sie tatsächlich spielen, sondern Mahler had hoped for the world premiere of his First Symphony in Budapest to become a resounding es geht um die Wirkung. Wenn die Horngruppe plötzlich aufsteht, nimmt das Publikum die Horn- success that would definitely establish his reputation as a composer. After the premiere in November stimme auf einmal deutlicher wahr und hört sie dadurch lauter, als das Spiel der anderen Gruppen. 1889, he wrote: “In Budapest, where I am sitting and where I premiered the symphony, friends shied Für mich ist die Stelle ein Beispiel dafür, dass man Mahlers Anweisungen auch dann versuchen soll, away from me: no one wanted to speak with me about the performance. I went about like a man who zu befolgen, wenn man ihren Sinn nicht richtig versteht. Am Ende hat er (fast) immer Recht! is contagious or shunned by society.” Whoever has been confronted with the mentality of the citizens of 4 Budapest knows exactly what Mahler meant by this. It still pains me to note that the Budapest music This was still before the great Mahler renaissance of the 1970’s, after which musicians did not dare so scene of the day gave birth to many Beckmessers but produced so few Hans Sachses. openly admit that they often find Mahler’s performance instructions irritating or even insulting. That is their effect on musicians, and it is quite understandable. If Mahler, instead, had written in the score: Not just in Budapest – in Kassel, as well, I served as General Music Director and thus indirectly as “In case the horns do not attain the necessary volume, they should stand up”, this would have been “successor” to Mahler. Kassel is where he wrote the Songs of a Wayfarer , several tunes of which appear more advisable from a psychological point of view, and even sitting horn players would have achieved in the First Symphony. When I went for walks under the trees in that Hessian town, I imagined an impressive intensity. Of course they can play loud even when they are sitting. Does standing up Mahler looking up to them for inspiration to write his “No.
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