"Suitner brought with him something authentic, believable with his Viennese origin." Memories begin to shine, and even when they are more than thirty years old, they are addressed to the sounds of sound recordings. They must have left lasting impressions with the participants such as the quoted Lothar Friedrich - long-standing violinist of the Staatskapelle Berlin - and that was with those recordings for a Gustav Mahler double LP, which appeared 1986 with Eterna - VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin GDR , Undoubtedly the case. The main work, the Fifth Symphony, once a breakthrough for the composer, was accompanied by songs from the "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" collection. The performers: baritone Siegfried Lorenz, Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner. Conductor Suitner, who died in Berlin in 2010, was an Austrian. This may be one of the keys to understanding why this disk could ever arise. Suitner served as Director General of the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden (1974-1991), and at the same time head of the Staatskapelle Berlin. "He was very solved, not over-concentrated - a fantastic conductor, with ease and enthusiasm. These songs needed an orchestra that would bring the pure expression, "the singer Siegfried Lorenz said to record the" Wunderhorn "-Lieder with Otmar Suitner. Lothar Friedrich adds to Mahler's 5th Symphony: "When I hear the recording today, I feel confirmed. Suitner achieved a great balance - here his emotionality, as an intellect-regulated approach. " An Austrian conducted Mahler in the GDR. An unusual constellation at the highest artistic level.
