Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No.1 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 208 Mb | Total time: 56:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | BIS-SACD-2346 | Recorded: 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 208 Mb | Total time: 56:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | BIS-SACD-2346 | Recorded: 2018
The shimmering string harmonics at the opening of Gustav Mahlers First Symphony bring to mind the suspended breath of spring, and will have signaled even to the very first audiences that a new symphonic era was being ushered in. Soon enough the composer introduces some of the elements that would become key components of his musical language: sounds of nature (here cuckoo calls) are combined with quasi-militaristic fanfares and high-art chromatic wanderings in cellos, as if to illustrate Mahlers view of the symphony as an all-embracing art form. The symphony, which the composer originally gave the subtitle Titan, borrows extensively from the song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.