Symphony no. 6 in A minor / Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen

Album by Gustav Mahler & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti & Yvonne Minton

Symphony No. 6 in A minor and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen are orchestral and vocal works by Gustav Mahler, composed in 1903–04 and 1884–85 respectively. The symphony features expansive, densely orchestrated writing, stark contrasts and prominent hammer-like gestures that underscore its tragic arc and mark a pivotal point in Mahler's middle-period development, while the song cycle employs folk-inflected melodies, incisive harmonic shifts and concise orchestral colouring to convey intimate, autobiographical moods that he would expand in his later symphonic work.