For this 2019 hybrid SACD, Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra present Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major, the fourth release in their cycle on BIS. As with their previous audiophile recordings of the Fifth, Sixth, and Second Symphonies, the performance is nearly ideal in interpretation and execution, and this exceptional recording deserves the same critical praise its predecessors have received. Mahler's exuberant music, which incorporates a great variety of musical influences -- from tavern songs to a funeral ...
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For this 2019 hybrid SACD, Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra present Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major, the fourth release in their cycle on BIS. As with their previous audiophile recordings of the Fifth, Sixth, and Second Symphonies, the performance is nearly ideal in interpretation and execution, and this exceptional recording deserves the same critical praise its predecessors have received. Mahler's exuberant music, which incorporates a great variety of musical influences -- from tavern songs to a funeral march parody of " Frère Jacques ," alongside evocations of nature and an apocalyptic vision of Dante's Inferno -- is a coherent synthesis of elements that can be found in the later symphonies, yet an astonishing masterpiece in its own right. Often given the soubriquet "Titan," after the novel by Jean Paul, the symphony is a refined version of an earlier tone poem of that name, but shouldn't be regarded as the same work, because Mahler removed all programmatic content,...
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