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Mahler Symphony No. 6

Label LSO Live

Artists London Symphony Orchestra

€23,99 EUR

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When Mahler began work on his Sixth Symphony in 1903, he thought about giving it a title: ’The Tragic’. But he had already begun to lose faith in titles, programmes and other literary props, and by the time the symphony was finished, two years later, the name had been dropped for good. But ’tragic’ remains most commentators’ verdict on the emotional content of this work, however much the shading of that interpretation may vary. For the great Mahlerian conductor Bruno Walter, the Sixth was ’bleakly pessimistic … the work ends in hopelessness and the dark night of the soul’. But Mahler’s biographer Michael Kennedy sees something more positive in the symphony’s message: ’It is a tragic work, but it is tragedy on a high plane, classical in conception and execution.’

Tracklist

Total time: 01:17:11

1. Mahler- Symphony No. 6- I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo

21:59

2. Mahler- Symphony No. 6- II. Andante moderato

13:53

3. Mahler- Symphony No. 6- III. Scherzo- Wuchtig

12:34

4. Mahler- Symphony No. 6- IV. Finale- Allegro moderato

28:45

Additional Information

Label

LSO Live

SKU

LSO0661

Qualities

FLAC 96 kHz, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 64

Channels

2ch Stereo, 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround

Artists

London Symphony Orchestra

Composers

Mahler

Conductors

Valery Gergiev

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

DSD 64

Instruments

Orchestra

Release Date

March 26, 2015

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Reviews

Audiophile Audition

The Finale is Gergiev's masterpiece ... All concerned play their hearts out. The hi-res sound engineering is superb.

Best of the Year Discs 2008

Source: audaud.com

ClassicsToday.com

The massed horns sound magnificent in the finale's battle-cries, and all of the principals tackle their parts with aplomb. It's good to hear this symphony played with the sort of gruff, raw vigor that suits its heroic cast so well.
Artistic Quality 9
Sound Quality 9

Source: www.classicstoday.com

Daily Telegraph

It shows how Mahler's neurosis and Gergiev's volatility are ideally matched: this is no plain-sailing excercise in orchestral virtuosity, but a deeply wrought journey of the soul ... The performance as a whole achieves an impressive balance between structure and detail.

International Record Review

This is a reading of great intensity, creating a most powerful impact ... a stunning performance of considerable musical belief in the demonstable fact that Mahler's Sixth is a great and original masterpiece.

Gramophone

'Editor's Choice 'It is difficult to resist Valery Gergiev in full flow. He summons such reserves of power and commitment from the LSO that one cannot help but be swept along.'