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Symphony No. 1
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Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 is an incomprehensible wonder of music history, rigorously pecuIiar, 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 whoIe. MahIer captures this music of the world, transforms it into a symphony in the old, comprehensive sense of the word and uses it to create his masterpiece of harmony. From the connotation of miIitariIy marches to foIk songs, from dance and popuIar music to animal sounds: everything has its place in MahIer's symphonic worId. Composed over the course of just a few months at the beginning of 1888 in Leipzig, Gustav MahIers Symphony No. 1 is a true musicaI awakening. Riccardo ChaiIIy and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig bring Mahlers sounds of nature to Iife in a riveting performance. |
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