Symphonie Nr 5. cis-Moll

Album by Gustav Mahler

Symphonie Nr. 5 cis-Moll is the fifth symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1902. The work is a large-scale late-Romantic orchestral composition characterised by dramatic contrasts, rich orchestral colour and a prominent funeral-march opening that leads through intimate slow writing to an expansive instrumental finale, and it marks Mahler's shift from symphonies that incorporate vocal forces to purely instrumental symphonic writing in his middle period.