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Mahler - Symphony no.1 | BIS BIS2346

Mahler - Symphony no.1

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2346

Barcode: 7318599923468

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th August 2019

Contents

Artists

Minnesota Orchestra

Conductor

Osmo Vanska

Works

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.1 in D major 'Titan'

Artists

Minnesota Orchestra

Conductor

Osmo Vanska

About

The shimmering string harmonics at the opening of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony bring to mind the suspended breath of spring, and will have signalled 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 Mahler’s 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. But Mahler also incorporates elements of Moravian popular music (in the second movement) and – in the slow third movement – famously quotes a minor-mode version of the children’s rhyme Bruder Martin (also known as Frère Jacques). The finale transports the listener to a world of Gothic theatricality reminiscent of Grand Opera, before arriving – after a number of false starts –at the symphony’s heroic chorale-like ending. This symphonic ‘world-in-microcosm’ is here brought to life by the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä on the fourth instalment in a series which has earned the team the description ‘among the finest exponents of Mahler’s music’ on the website allmusic.com.

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