Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies & Kindertotenlieder - cd 08 of 14 - Symphony No.5 - BSO - Seiji Ozawa

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 1 zip file with the 5 tracks of cd 8 (of 14) on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 126 page boxset booklet (in English, German, French), plus the box cover and front and back cover of the cd.

http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-S...&qid=1283672921&sr=1-1

The Box Cover:
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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
The Symphony No. 5 was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler's cottage at Maiernigg. Among its most distinctive features are the funereal trumpet solo that opens the work and the frequently performed Adagietto. The musical canvas and emotional scope of the work, which lasts over an hour, are huge. After its premiere, Mahler is reported to have said, “Nobody understood it. I wish I could conduct the first performance fifty years after my death.” Conductor Herbert von Karajan said that when one hears Mahler's Fifth, “you forget that time has passed. A great performance of the Fifth is a transforming experience. The fantastic finale almost forces you to hold your breath.”

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