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Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor

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LSO0665

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor

DSD recording, live at the Barbican March 2008

London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Following explosive accounts of the First and Sixth symphonies, the third release in Valery Gergiev's astonishing Mahler cycle features Symphony No 7. The revelatory performances of the Seventh have been one of the highlights of the cycle in concert to date.

“a performance of the Seventh Symphony as cohesive and powerful as I can remember. This was a blinder from start to finish …” Financial Times **** (concert review)

“In glossing over the leering monsters of this gilt ballroom of sound, Gergiev finds a more or less cohesive - if not always satisfying - epic thread, although the central Scherzo still rebels. Gergiev and a lively LSO sweep up the finale bells and whistles with exhilarating energy.” The Times, 26th July 2008 ****

“Valery Gergiev treats [the Seventh Symphony] as an exercise in orchestral virtuosity that primarily strives for effect rather than attempting to explore underlying substance. It's thrillingly played, but Gergiev's speeds are at times self-consciously extreme. A sense of garbled excitement pervades the outer movements, which could do with more consideration and shape. The morbid central scherzo and the two nocturnes that frame it are more adroitly done: the second nocturne is sexy as well as ironic, which makes it very unsettling.” The Guardian, 8th August 2008 ***