Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Symphonic Music
I'll go for broke and say I don’t know a better Mahler Fifth than this one, since in addition to Järvi’s care over every dynamic, there’s a sense of live electric charge which makes the ends...
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Symphonic Music
I'll go for broke and say I don’t know a better Mahler Fifth than this one, since in addition to Järvi’s care over every dynamic, there’s a sense of live electric charge which makes the ends...
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This recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony by the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich under its Music Director Paavo Jarvi, is the first in a complete cycle of Mahler symphonies. Jarvi has of course conducted Mahler's works many times in his career, but has waited for the right moment to record the complete cycle in the studio: the right moment not only in his life as a musician but also in his relationship with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich; the maturity and power revealed in the orchestra's recordings for Alpha Classics have been hailed by the music press since 2019. "Mahler truly opened up a new universe with the Fifth, in which he initiated an incredibly personal style of music-making." says Paavo Jarvi. "It is the very nature of its opening -- a military funeral -- and of its tragedy, in conjunction with the very idea of beginning a symphony in this way, which signals that something completely different is in store for us".
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Paavo Järvi on Mahler
17th Mar 2025
As he embarks upon a cycle of Mahler’s symphonies with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi talks about his early exposure to the composer’s music listening at home to recordings with his father, and how Mahler’s own experience as a conductor helps inform interpreters of his music today.
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineMay 2025Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards2026Winner - Symphonic Music
May 2025
I'll go for broke and say I don’t know a better Mahler Fifth than this one, since in addition to Järvi’s care over every dynamic, there’s a sense of live electric charge which makes the ends of the Scherzo and Finale above all hair-raisingly brilliant.
April 2025
The horn-playing is indeed rollicking throughout. No complaints either about the tenderly unwrapped Adagietto, which conveys an improvisatory feel and builds to a sonorous climax with throbbing bass line.
