Symphony no. 5

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

Symphony No. 5 is the fifth symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1902. The five-movement work traverses a wide emotional and sonic range—opening with a dramatic funeral march and moving through lyrical and contrapuntal passages to a resolute finale—characterised by expansive late-Romantic orchestration, prominent brass and string writing, and marking a key shift in Mahler's output toward more absolute instrumental forms within early 20th-century symphonic practice.