Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1 D major (2018) Blu-ray

Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 D majo is a incomprehensible miracle of audio background, rigorously bizarre, disturbingly fresh, and timelessly modern. "Wie ein Naturlaut" ("Like a sound of character") is indicated over the very first notes of this symphony. It is the secret and the prelude to his cosmos as a whole. Mahler’s audio catches this audio of the planet, transforms it into a symphony from the old, in depth sense of the term and uses it to make his masterpiece of stability. In the connotation of militarily marches to folk tunes, from popular and dance music to animal sounds: what has its own place in Mahler’s symphonic world.
Composed over the course of just a few months at the beginning of 1888 in Leipzig, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 is a true musical awakening. Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig bring Mahler’s sounds of nature to life in a riveting performance.
Recorded at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
January 2015

Tracklist:
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
1. Langsam, schleppend
2. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
3. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
4. Stürmisch bewegt

Bonus:
• Interview with Riccardo Chailly on Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1

Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig