Lorin Maazel @ RFH

Philharmonia Orchestra, Resident at Southbank Centre / Maazel: Mahler Cycle 2011

Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1 (vers. standard in 4 movements)

Lorin Maazel conductor
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano

'The symphony is a world' Mahler proclaimed to Sibelius - and few composers have written music that conjures up as wide a range of musical imagery as his First Symphony. From the evocative opening, marked 'like a sound of nature', to a funeral march based on Frère Jacques, and from the sounds of military and folk bands to wistful love themes (taken from the song cycle also heard this evening), it is a work of enormous power and breadth.