Mahler: Symphony No. 5

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Roth’s is handsome work, resulting in trenchant strings with a superb bass line, perfectly focused in the storms of the first two movements ad the fugues of the finale. There’s a good sense of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: HMM905285
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Series: Roth Mahler Symphonies
Length: 70 minutes

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November 2017

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Work length1:10:42

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Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
François-Xavier Roth

I. Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt

Track length12:19

$1.40

$1.75

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II. Stürmisch bewegt. Mit größter Vehemenz

Track length14:19

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III. Scherzo. Kräftig, nicht zu schnell

Track length18:08

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IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam

Track length10:46

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V. Rondo-Finale. Allegro

Track length15:10

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Immortalized in Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece “Death in Venice”, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (with its unforgettable Adagietto) today needs no introduction. Except to point out that the composer himself led its premiere some 113 years ago, conducting the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne. For this recording, the modern-day players comprising the very same ensemble are led by the city’s newly appointed General Music Director, François-Xavier Roth, which patently places this version in a class of its own.

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February 2018

Roth’s is handsome work, resulting in trenchant strings with a superb bass line, perfectly focused in the storms of the first two movements ad the fugues of the finale. There’s a good sense of forward but unforced propulsion which makes the Funeral March’s successor – often a sticky point in this Symphony – a blazing success.

March 2018

You might even find Roth’s light-textured neoclassicism more convincing than Bernstein’s traditional grandstanding as we reach the closing chorale…Throughout Roth secures string-playing that is super-articulate with no shortage of special effects, trumpets and horns kept on a tight rein in what sounds like a dryish studio.

19th November 2017

This same Cologne orchestra, in 1904, gave the premiere of Mahler No 5. Whether or not it was that fact that inspired these fine players and their brilliant conductor to surpass themselves, their account of the symphony is exceptional: intensely vivid, abrasive, violent in its contrasting dynamics, sounding at times like a modern work.

14th December 2017

an exciting and fresh-sounding performance, played on modern instruments but with a raw energy that Roth has brought from his work with his own period-instrument group, Les Siècles. Thanks to the transparency of sound they achieve we get to hear lots of usually hidden detail, and the players relish it.

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

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