Mahler: Symphony No. 5
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 17 November 2017
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Immortalized in Luchino Visconti's masterpiece "Death in Venice", Mahler's Symphony No. 5 (with its unforgettable Adagietto) today needs no introduction. Except to point out that the composer himself led its premiere some 113 years ago, conducting the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne. For this recording, the modern-day players comprising the very same ensemble are led by the city's newly appointed General Music Director, François-Xavier Roth, which patently places this version in a class of its own.
"An exciting and fresh-sounding performance, played on modern instruments but with a raw energy that Roth has brought from his work with his own period-instrument group, Les Siècles. Thanks to the transparency of sound they achieve we get to hear lots of usually hidden detail, and the players relish it." - The Guardian
Tracks:
Symphony no.5
C sharp Minor / Ut dièse mineur / cis-Moll
1 I. Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt
2 II. Stürmisch bewegt. Mit größter Vehemenz
3 III. Scherzo. Kräftig, nicht zu schnell
4 IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam
5 V. Rondo-Finale. Allegro
