Mahler - Symphony no.5
£16.10
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMM902366
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 16th November 2018
Contents
Artists
Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraConductor
Daniel HardingWorks
Symphony no.5 in C sharp minorArtists
Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraConductor
Daniel HardingAbout
The years following Gustav Mahler’s early period (marked by Des Knaben Wunderhorn) saw the production of works of ever greater complexity and sardonicism, which show no trace of naïveté.
Within a framework of utmost intricacy, the themes, musical gestures, and building blocks (for instance, the interval of a minor third which opens the Fifth Symphony’s famous Adagietto) trace a journey from darkness to light which culminates in the striking modernity of the finale.
Reviews
The opening funeral march is fairly dug out of sullen black earth. Harding sets an audaciously broad pace and hangs on to it for grim death. ... A pitch-perfect Adagietto is sung tenderly as if in the midst of love and not death, but with the space both to impart natural-sounding portamento to its phrases and to plant a broad caesura of respite and reflection amid the symphony’s – and the performance’s – neurotic and finally euphoric turns of mood. ... In a market where modern rivals sound pedestrian or perfumed with finesse by comparison, this Fifth raises high hopes for what the graphic cover artwork implies may become a complete cycle. Peter Quantrill
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