Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'

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with the Scherzo and Finale Harding is well up there with the greats…above all it's the Bavarian Radio Symphony, with its fabulous first trumpet, baleful, full-toned tuba and winsome oboist,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: 900132
Label: BR Klassik
Length: 82 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'

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Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 20-22 March 2014
Recording Venue: Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, Germany

I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig

Track length23:22

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II. Andante moderato

Track length15:56

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III. Scherzo: Wuchtig

Track length12:35

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IV. Finale: Allegro moderato

Track length30:32

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Daniel Harding follows his first CD recording on the BR-KLASSIK label (Schumann's Faust Scenes, BR-KLASSIK, 900122) with this live recording of Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony. Counting Sir Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado among his teachers, since 2005 he has constantly made a name for himself with spectacular concerts with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks as a guest conductor. In this live recording of 2014 from Munich's Philharmonie im Gasteig, BR-KLASSIK presents one of Mahler's most unusual symphonies. Its dark and complex score contrasts starkly with what appeared on the surface to be a happy and carefree phase of the composer's life when he wrote it. The world-class conductor Daniel Harding demonstrates great artistic flexibility here; and with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, he encounters an ensemble that has been among the pioneers of Mahler performance ever since the Kubelík era of the 1960s.

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December 2015

with the Scherzo and Finale Harding is well up there with the greats…above all it's the Bavarian Radio Symphony, with its fabulous first trumpet, baleful, full-toned tuba and winsome oboist, which collectively confirms itself as one of the top five orchestras in the world.

October 2015

There is much beautiful playing from the Bavarians, in the slow movement above all, assuming that you can accept an interpretation trading heartbreaking melancholy and human warmth for a kind of frozen poise…[Harding's] relatively deliberate, anti-rhetorical treatment certainly avoids the usual heaviness.

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