Gilbert Edmund Kaplan (born March 3 1941, New York City, U.S.) is an American businessman, former journalist and amateur conductor. He founded the magazine Institutional Investor in 1965 after studies at Duke University, the New School for Social Research and the NYU School of Law. He was publisher of the magazine until 1990, and editor-in-chief for three more years, although he sold it in 1984 for $72 million. He then concentrated on conducting, hiring Avery Fisher Hall in New York for his debut in 1982. He set up the Kaplan Foundation dedicated to Mahler. After personal research, he has twice recorded Mahler's Second Symphony: with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1987, and with the Vienna Philharmonic in 2002. He has bought the autograph of Mahler's score of this symphony and commissioned a facsimile edition of the score. He is co-editor of the new critical edition of the Second Symphony as part of the Complete Critical Edition of Mahler's works, to appear soon. [1] He is also a member of faculty of The Juilliard School (Evening Division). Mahler's Second Symphony is the only complete work he conducts, although he has also recorded the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
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References
- Gilbert E. Kaplan: How Mahler Performed His Second Symphony. The Musical Times, Vol. 127, No. 1718 (May, 1986), pp. 266-267+269+271
- Gilbert Kaplan: The Mahler Album. Kaplan Foundation in association with Thames and Hudson, New York/London 1995, ISBN 0500974217
- Gilbert Kaplan: The correct movement order in Mahler's Sixth symphony. Kaplan Foundation, New York 2004, ISBN 0974961302
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 2 in C minor : Resurrection : facsimile Kaplan Foundation, New York 1986, ISBN 0571100643
- Gustav Mahler: Adagietto. Facsimile, documentation, recording. Gilbert E. Kaplan, ed. Kaplan Foundation, New York 1992, ISBN 0571513220
Discography
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Resurrection". Benita Valente, soprano; Maureen Forrester, alto; Gilbert E Kaplan; London Symphony Chorus.; London Symphony Orchestra. 1988
- From Mahler With Love. Gustav Mahler: Adagietto, from Symphony no. 5; Gilbert E Kaplan; London Symphony Orchestra. 1992
- Mahler plays Mahler. The Welte-Mignon piano rolls. Gilbert Kaplan, Executive Producer. 1993
- The Kaplan Mahler edition. 1996. (contains Symphony No. 2, Adagietto from Symphony No. 5, the Mahler piano rolls, recorded recollections of musicians who performed with Mahler plus a CD-ROM part containing 150 pictures from The Mahler Album)
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2. Latonia Moore, soprano; Nadja Michael, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kaplan; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Philharmoniker. Deutsche Grammophon 2003
