Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Blu Ray – Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig 

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, recorded in February 2013.

As Riccardo Chailly points out, ‘The Fifth begins with a dark, gloomy, and tragic tone, but then is enlivened in the Scherzo and Adagietto, and eventually ends with a more positive character in the Finale – perhaps for the last time in Mahler’s life. The Adagietto is a revelation, a spiritual oasis. It is not an expression of pain, but rather Mahler’s declaration of love to Alma – a song without words.’ With the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chailly gives the piece an unsu.