Symphony no. 6

Album by Gustav Mahler & Alban Berg & Boston Symphony Orchestra & Erich Leinsdorf & Phyllis Curtin

Symphony No. 6 is a symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1904. The work is a large-scale late-Romantic orchestral composition characterised by intense dynamics, stark contrasts between lyrical and march-like material, and innovative structural ideas that reflect Mahler's middle-period concerns with fate, tragedy and formal expansion.
First released: 1966

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 6 in A major: I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo
    18:25
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 6 in A major: IV. Finale (Allegro moderato)
    28:33
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 6 in A major: II. Scherzo (Wuchtig)
    11:55
  4. 4.
    Le vin
    12:20
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 6 in A major: III. Andante
    14:59

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