Symphony no. 5

Album by Gustav Mahler & MDR Sinfonieorchester & Rudolf Kempe

Symphony No. 5 is a symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1902. The five-movement work employs expanded late-Romantic orchestration with dramatic contrasts between sombre brass-led and lyrical string passages, complex contrapuntal writing and a forceful finale, and marks a shift in Mahler's output from his earlier song-symphony hybrids toward purely instrumental symphonic writing.
First released: 2011

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 5: Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt
    13:47
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 5: Stürmisch bewegt. Mit größter Vehemenz
    14:51
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 5: Scherzo. Kräftig, nicht zu schnell
    12:12
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 5: Adagietto. Sehr langsam
    9:31
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 5: Rondo-Finale. Allegro - Allegro giocoso. Frisch
    13:02

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