Mahler: Symphony No. 4

As a former assistant to Claudio Abbado and Bernard Haitink, Gustavo Gimeno has learnt his Mahler at the feet of two pre-eminent Mahler conductors of their generation…The inner movements flow... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2018
Catalogue No: PTC5186651
Label: Pentatone
Length: 67 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 4

54:14

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Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno
Miah Persson (soprano)
Recorded: February 2017
Recording Venue: Philharmonie Luxembourg

I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen

16:15

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II. In gemächlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast

9:12

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III. Ruhevoll, poco adagio

20:18

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IV. Sehr behaglich

8:29

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Mahler: Piano Quartet (in one movement) in A minor

12:53

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Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno

Piano Quartet in A Minor "Nicht zu schnell" (Arr. C. Matthews for Orchestra)

12:53

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With their combination of modernism and Romantic nostalgia, and alternation of sweeping orchestral gestures with chamber-musical delicacy, Gustav Mahler’s orchestral works are as impressive and moving today as they were at the time of their premiere. This certainly applies to Mahler’s Fourth Symphony: a work that stands at the crossroads between the largely “Romantic” early symphonies nos. 1–3 and the much more “Modernist” middle-period symphonies nos. 5–7. It is also a fundamentally ambivalent piece: its joyous and accessible surface hides a surprising degree of complexity and even contrariness. While still employing many of the tropes of the traditional nineteenth-century symphony, Mahler at the same time undermines those tropes and distances himself from the symphonic tradition he inherited. The entire symphony works towards the pastoral folksong “Das himmlische Leben” in the fourth movement, sung here by the outstanding Swedish soprano Miah Persson. The Piano Quartet is Mahler’s only surviving chamber music composition, and the movement represented on this album is the only one he completed. Mahler wrote the piece most likely in 1876 or 1877. This is Gustavo Gimeno’s fourth recording with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL) for Pentatone.

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June 2018

As a former assistant to Claudio Abbado and Bernard Haitink, Gustavo Gimeno has learnt his Mahler at the feet of two pre-eminent Mahler conductors of their generation…The inner movements flow with understated charm…The soprano of Miah Persson has gained a little weight and vibrancy since recording the symphony’s finale with Iván Fischer almost a decade ago but she now makes even more of the words than before.

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