Recent decades have seen an aesthetic impose less romantic and more objective underlining that Mahler's music was experimental. The two great representatives of this style of interpretation are Pierre Boulez and Michael Gielen remarkable foix by the clarity and fluidity. 1. Pierre Boulez Mahler applies to techniques that are those of "baroqueux" He plays nothing but the partition but any partition. And this is what makes the difference. Each instrumental desired hue by the composer is thus restored. It avoids the general slowness adopted by other leaders who deprives the fifth part of its momentum and its cutting edge. 2. It is accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra which was Mahler: musicians, experienced in this style of music, are prominent and easily adapt their boss's demands. Everything is about balance, fluidity, attention to form.
One more so appreciate this interpretation it is magnified by a decision of his perfect, attentive to detail than ever without the great line is absent.
