Release Date: 27 June 2010
Label: Chandos - Sacd / Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115507926
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Mahler
Description
ten over a period of two years, 1904 - 05, and scored and revised in 1906. The symphony has no programme, but the two serenade movements were influenced by the German romanticism of the poetry of Eichendorff, and elements of the fairytale, the macabre, and the sentimental permeate these movements. Even though the symphony is imbued with a richness of melody, and bold and original harmonies, it is perhaps the most enigmatic of all Mahler's symphonies. It begins with a striking funeral march, which develops into a powerful allegro, though the music is at the same time full of 'dream-like' elements. These dream-like fantasy elements pervade the serenade movements, which are separated by an exciting central scherzo, and the symphony ends with a vigorously contrapuntal finale. Perhaps the symphony can be seen as a journey from darkness to light, from the B minor gloom of the beginning, to the blaze of C major at the end. The journey is fascinating and very rewarding.
Tracklisting
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Barry Douglas
Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Eva Ollikainen
Madeleine Dring; Julius Drake
Neave Trio
Yo-Yo Ma
Yarno Missiaen; Bart Naessens
Vladimir Feltsman
True Concord Voices and Orchestra; Susanna Phillips; Tucson Girls Chorus; Eric Holtan; Marcella Mol
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Seiji Ozawa
Stephanie McCallum; Erin Helyard
Stefano Grondona
Solomiya Ivakhiv; INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra; Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Roma
