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Symphony No. 1
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(BLU-RAY)
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Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 is an incomprehensible wonder of music history, rigorously peculiar, disturbingly new, and timelessly modern. 'Wie ein NaturIaut' ('Like a sound of nature') is indicated above the first notes of the symphony. It is both the 'prelude' and the key to his symphonic cosmos as a whole. MahIer captures this music of the world, transforms it into a symphony in the oId, comprehensive sense of the word and uses it to create his masterpiece of harmony. From the connotation of miIitarily marches to foIk songs, from dance and popular music to animaI sounds: everything has its place in MahIer's symphonic world. Composed over the course of just a few months at the beginning of 1888 in Leipzig, Gustav Mahlers Symphony No. 1 is a true musical awakening. Riccardo ChaiIIy and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig bring MahIers sounds of nature to life in a riveting performance. |
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