Symphony no. 1

Album by Gustav Mahler & Minnesota Orchestra & Edo de Waart

Symphony No. 1 is the first symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1888. As a late-Romantic orchestral work, it employs expansive orchestration, folk-inspired motifs and programme-like passages, and it represents Mahler's early development as a symphonic composer that foreshadowed his later large-scale symphonies.
First released: 1990

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 1 in D major: I. Langsam. Schleppend
    16:18
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 1 in D major: II. (Scherzo): Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
    7:42
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 1 in D major: III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
    11:27
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 1 in D major: IV. Stürmisch bewegt
    20:15

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