Mahler: Symphony No. 7

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The first 'nightmusic'… benefits from the hard work of Jansons the soundmaster, with downward plunges phenomenally clear and luminous woodwind trilling… the Rondo-Finale make [Mahler's] the best... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Oct 2009
Catalogue No: 403571900101
Label: BR Klassik
Length: 77 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Work length1:17:27

Album only

Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Mariss Jansons

I. Langsam (Live)

Track length21:40

Album only

II. Nachtmusik (Live)

Track length15:13

$4.00

$5.15

III. Scherzo (Live)

Track length9:58

$2.00

$2.60

IV. Nachtmusik (Live)

Track length13:13

$3.00

$3.85

V. Rondo - Finale (Live)

Track length17:23

$4.00

$5.15

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Making a valid recording of the Seventh by Gustav Mahler places the most stringent requirements on the virtuosity of every individual musician in the orchestra. The task of bringing together the highly complex individual parts into a coherent whole – an undertaking that, when it succeeds, always has a a breathtaking effect, especially with Mahler – calls for a conductor capable of uniting the ensemble of individual solo-quality musicians into an overriding musical concept. Attesting to how convincingly Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks accomplished this feat at their Munich concert, the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: “We listened to an orchestra that had clearly reached the high point of its art.” The multi leveled, detail-rich score of this Mahler work – here in a recording based on the critical edition by the International Gustav Mahler Society – gains even more impact from the stunning technical reproduction using the high-definition SACD process. With his two grotesque “night music” sections, sounds of nature, naïve folk-tune motifs and trance-like orchestral tutti passages, the 7th Symphony is typical of Mahler’s sound world.

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January 2010

The first 'nightmusic'… benefits from the hard work of Jansons the soundmaster, with downward plunges phenomenally clear and luminous woodwind trilling… the Rondo-Finale make [Mahler's] the best possible case for Mahler's clear-sighted depiction of communal exuberance. ...Jansons's judgment in tempo co-ordinations is superb here...

2nd January 2010

...a depth and breadth of sound that really hits you...In sonic terms alone it’s breath-taking, but so is every other aspect of the Bavarians’ performance.

December 2009

The finale is breathtaking as a piece of orchestral alchemy, winds and brasses blending seamlessly into virtuoso and lustrous strings.

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