Today Mahler's music enjoys an unprecedented level of popularity throughout the world - resurgence in interest that began in the 1960s, and which was fuelled by the use of the composer's music in films such as Visconti's Death in Venice and Ken Russell's Mahler.

This new addition to Decca's popular Adagios series has over two hours of Mahler's most haunting, emotional and beautiful music.

The recordings included here feature the famous partnership of Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as Riccardo Chailly and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Brigitte Fassbaender in the haunting "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen".

An ideal introduction to the world of Mahler.