Mahler - Symphony No 5 Reviews

This is a lovely, natural, well-paced, fresh performance with very idiomatic singing from Maria Tauberova in the final movement. The playing is vintage Czech Phil. - rustic woodwind, mellow brass and very characterful string playing. There is a problem, and that is in the recording, which is usually clear and natural, like the performance, though ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I have to be in the mood to put on a Mahler CD, not because there is any question of the value of his music, but because it is never ever 'wallpaper' music. Mahler will make you listen. His great achievements were in the fields Lieder and Symphonies, obsessions which crossed paths on one or two occasions, with voices entering his ...  Read the complete review

Mahler was a restless spirit, obsessed with death, and with the quest to find a meaning to life. These characteristics pretty well describe his music, too. By the end of a Mahler symphony, the feeling is not so much that one has listened to a piece of music, but that one has completed a turbulent voyage of the imagination. Listening to Mahler can ...  Read the complete review