In an effort to arrange the first performance of his Seventh Symphony, Gustav Mahler declared it to be his best work, 'preponderantly cheerful in character'. His younger colleague Schoenberg...
(SACD-HYBRID) Eliahu Inbal conducts the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra for this one point microphone recording of Mahler's Seventh Symphony. The Seventh had it's premiere on 19 September 1908,...
Schubert composed his first five symphonies while still a teenager, but they represent just one facet of his prodigious fluency. At this time some of his musical ideas bear a family resemblance to...