Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies & Kindertotenlieder - cd 13 & 14 of 14 - Symphony Nos.9 - 10 - Adagio BSO - Seiji Ozawa

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 2 zip files with the 10 tracks of cd's 13 and 14 (of 14) on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 126 page boxset booklet (in English, German, French), plus the box cover and front and back cover of the two cd's.

http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-S...&qid=1283672921&sr=1-1

The Box Cover:
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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
The Symphony No. 9 was written in 1908 and 1909, and was the last symphony that he completed. Mahler was at this time a champion of the emerging avant-garde movement, represented most notably by Arnold Schoenberg, and this placed him in a difficult situation as the standard-bearer of the past while being acutely aware of the future of music (and in particular, atonality) opening up before him. The work was premiered on June 26, 1912, at the Vienna Festival by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. The Symphony No. 10 was written in 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler's death the composition was substantially complete as a draft, but was unperformable in that state. Mahler's drafts and sketches for the Tenth Symphony comprise 72 pages of full score, 50 pages of continuous short score draft (2 pages of which are missing), and a further 44 pages of preliminary drafts, sketches, and inserts. In the form in which Mahler left it, the symphony consists of five movements. In 1924 the first and the third movements were performed. From the 1960s musicologists and composers made some "complete versions" of the Tenth (Cooke, Carpenter, Wheeler, Mazzetti, Barshai, Samale-Mazzucca).

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