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Mahler - Symphony No.5 | Brilliant Classics 93719

Mahler - Symphony No.5

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93719

Barcode: 5028421937199

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 23rd November 2009

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Contents

Artists

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Conductor

Rudolph Barshai

Works

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor

Artists

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Conductor

Rudolph Barshai

About

Mahler’s Fifth Symphony was completed in 1903 and subjected to immediate revision before the composer conducted the premier in Cologne in October the following year. For such a brilliant conductor and composer for the orchestra, the Fifth appears to have caused him much trouble, and he continued to revise and tinker with the score right up to his death in 1911. ‘I simply can’t understand why I make such mistakes, like the merest beginner’ he wrote, though it has since been viewed as one of his most popular and greatest works.

Rudolf Barshai’s performance of the Fifth with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie is regarded by many as one of the great performances this work has received on record. Barshai is usually associated with 20th century composers, and in particular Shostakovich and Prokofiev. He commissioned works from composers and was also a skilled arranger, as his famous version for string orchestra of Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet demonstrates. He is one of the great figures of 20th century music, and a very fine conductor as this recording of Mahler’s Fifth reveals.

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