Dear Mr. Denham,
With great interest we read your survey on Mahler's Seventh Symphony. Concerning the 1st recording conducted by Hans ROSBAUD, we must inform you that this recording was made by East German Radio on January 11, 1948 (not 1953, which was the year of publication), because he conducted this work in concert with the Radio Symphony Orchestra at this time. (I have attached an article from the newspaper of this time). Rosbaud did not conduct the work at any other time in Berlin before the first publication on LP of this recording by Urania Record Corp. Therefore, this is the very first recording of this symphony that was made. [Nearly] all reissues have been pitched very flat and sound terrible (including the many CD reissues which have all been taken from LPs), [but ours was taken from the original tapes]
We will endeavour to corrent the survey in due course.
LD
Readers may be interested to know that we are shortly to publish a further Mahler Symphony Conspectus to add to those already of the First Symphony (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/Feb/Mahler-sy1-survey-LD.pdf), the Fourth Symphony (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Oct/Mahler-sy4-update.pdf), as well as Das Lied von der Erde (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Jun/Mahler-Erde-survey.pdf). The aim of these Surveys were to update our late colleague, Tony Duggan's own writings on the music, published over ten years ago.
We would therefore welcome any comments, thoughts and suggestions or otherwise with regards to it here - the purpose of this message is to be able to embed it in the survey, hence it appearing a couple of days beforehand.
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