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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Awesome Oct 21, 2008
I hope he comes to America so I can see him. I would pay big bucks to see this guy preform!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Impossible but true! Apr 27, 2008
One looks to Horenstein and Bernstein for Mahler. I could not believe the absolute intuitive rightness of Dudamel's way with Mahler's 5th. The tricky variations--in every dimension--that characterize Mahler's wordless discourses on fragmented, fraught modernity are always, in this performance, aspects of the work as an integrated whole. The Bolivar youth orchestra was, for me, absolutely and amazingly up to the job, though as a non-musician I may well have failed to notice infelicities that a musician's ear would pick up. In any case, I find this an uncannily good performance, and have recommended it to those of my friends who still sit and listen to music. The recording is very good.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
You MUST get this! Mar 14, 2008
I saw this guy on 60 minutes and WOW! He is so wonderful. He can really make someone fall in love with classical music. I love his passion for music. Its nice to see a fresh young face on a conductor! I would LOVE to see him live! Not sure that would happen at this time, but boy I would sure try hard if he ever came to Chicago!
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 as far as melodrama goes Mar 03, 2008
I find Dudamel's musical direction so melodramatic that it's toxic, but for those who love a lot of drama in their music, he's pretty good. Creative use of white tones... Unexpected in a work like this. Decent sense of rythm and continuity, decent sense of contrast. He lays it on really thick, and I am knocking a star off for that.
29 of 39 found the following review helpful:
A Most Worthy Calling Card! Nov 02, 2007
The miracle/mystery of the gift of great conducting is something audiences for ages have pondered. Given the schooling, the influence in early life of some great mentors, the opportunities or good fortunes that open to certain young conductors - given these and other factors, why is it that only a few conductors are great? And while no one purports to have the answer, the chief factor seems to be the innate musicality of the gifted ones. Gustavo Dudamel has the gift, the insight into the minds of composers, the ability to step onto a podium with assured preparedness, the means of communicating his thoughts and concepts to his orchestra, and the resulting stimulation of his audiences to become wholly involved with the music of the moment.
While most every classical music devotee probably has multiple fine recordings of Gustav Mahler's challenging and exquisitely passionate Fifth Symphony, few of those polished recordings played by the big orchestras of the world and recorded in acoustically mellow halls/studios can excite the ear and heart the way that this recording by Dudamel and his Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela can. The approach is straight forward, as though Dudamel conversed directly with Mahler, the insights are gleaming (inner lines have rarely been so clear, portions of the orchestration which has been muddy under the baton of others finds clarity and passion combined, etc), and the symphony makes complete sense as a whole rather than as a series of individual movements. High words of praise? Yes, but for this listener, having just witnessed Dudamel and his orchestra visiting in the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, there have been few equals in the interpretation and playing of this mammoth score. The first desk players are superb (the solo French Horn in the third movement is near perfect) and the commitment of the orchestra to their maestro is evident and unflagging throughout the long symphony.
Dudamel and Mahler - prepare for an impressive association. Fortune has smiled on the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Dudamel approaches his role of Music Director in 2009. The hall, his musicality, and the emotional impact of Gustavo Dudamel with the Los Angeles Philharmonic bode well for the music world. This fine recording with his own orchestra of gifted young people is a stunning calling card! Grady Harp, November 07
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