The works featured in this new recording were originally composed for an instrument which had a wide bass register - the basset clarinet was tuned in A and enjoyed some popularity when the clarinet was not yet a stand orchestral instrument. One of Mozart’s most famous and beloved symphonic works, this masterpiece, which was created on the threshold of his death, is beautiful beyond description.

The debut of Gustav Mahler on the international symphonic scene could hardly have been more sensational. When his Symphony No.1 in D Major, which the composer had begun in early 1885 and completed in 1888, was premiered in Budapest on the evening of 20th November 1889, Mahler’s revolutionary nature became unmistakably clear – a new era for music had begun.