Huge (Mahler - Symphony No 5)

Member Name: mjn

Product:	Mahler - Symphony No 5
Date:	21/07/00 (21 review reads)
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Advantages: Great themes worth seeing if you can

Disadvantages: Long and intense in places

Mahler's 2nd symphony "The Resurrection"

This is a magnificient piece of music. I've seen it a couple of times now at the Proms and it is a real experience.

Mahler, in the 2nd, sets out to describe burial and journey of a particular man on his way to heaven. He experiences various events on the way and there is a particular scene that, if you have a good hi fi and a dettached house, is worth turning up. When I first tried it I thought I was going to get trampled in the rush.

I don't play my CD too often because I don't want to get used to the moving ending as the whole orchestra, choir and concert organ describe our dead mans arrivel at the pearly gates.

You can tell from this description that I am a "real musician" (not)but seriously if you haven't heard any Mahler and don't mind spending 80 minutes sitting still this is for you.

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