Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7
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95476
BCB
2001.01.01
"Kubelik's approach suits the music wonderfully well: the opening movement's mighty oar-stroke, the spectral scherzo, the balmy, beneath-the-star caress of 'Nachtmusik II'..., the finale's quasi-Ivesian revel." (Gramophone)
If Mahler did indeed strive for a glorification of pantheistic feeling for nature in his Symphony No. 7, then the result turned out to be extremely broken and complex. A letter from Mahler to a friend may here contribute to a better understanding: "I am always strangely moved by the fact that most...