Classics Today 10/10: "Indispensable"; International Record Review: outstanding; Music Web International: outstanding.
There could be no greater contrast to Mahler's crushing Sixth Symphony than his surreal “Song of the Night” – the Seventh Symphony. A diffuse, unwieldly score, calling for such musical exotica as a Baritone Horn, Mandoline, Guitar and of course… COW BELLS, Mahler's Seventh is one of the composer's most difficult scores to bring off. Difficult
… Read morefor some, but Maestro Gielen draws out every rich and bizarre detail and presents us with one of the stunning recordings of the Seventh to appear on disc!
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