Claus Peter Flor Releases New Mahler Box with Milan Symphony
“It is a really excellent vision of the music. This is the indication of a real Mahler conductor, a seriously fine Mahler conductor.”
David Hurwitz of Classics Today on Claus Peter Flor's recording of Mahler symphonies 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano: "Flor really gets Mahler. It is so exciting to hear a conductor who knows how to put the life, the jazz into this music. (...) One of my favorite moments of these performances is in the first movement of the Third Symphony - he is just tearing into it, he is really pushing, it's absolutely marvelous. (...) Flor is really good at Sturm und Drang. He gets the Angst. The Ninth is not one of those super slow, ultra-decadent performances; it is very much the work of a guy who was only fifty, at the peak of his powers when he wrote it. The tempos are generally quick. (...) It is a really excellent vision of the music. This is the indication of a real Mahler conductor, a seriously fine Mahler conductor. I would love for him to be able to record 2, 4,6, 8! Flor's vision of the music deserves to be captured. I am impressed by what he wants to do, and the degree to which he gets it done, in a place and with musicians whom you would never expect to be able to do it so well. Good for the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, congratulations for being smart enough to hire Claus Peter Flor to do Mahler with."