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Best Mahler symphony: ranking the nine completed symphonies of Gustav Mahler. Is it the First Symphony, 'Titan'? The Second, 'Resurrection'? The childlike Fourth? Which is the best Mahler symphony?
- Symphony No.4 (1899-1900) Around the turn of the century, Mahler had become famous for the huge sound and scale of his symphonic works. His Fourth Symphony set a different sort of course.
- Symphony No.5 (1901-1902) Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is undoubtedly his most famous work, thanks to its serene fourth movement, the ‘Adagietto’, written as a love letter to his beloved wife Alma.
- Symphony No.6 (1903-1904) This ferocious work, nicknamed the ‘Tragic’ but composed during a relatively contented time of the composer’s life, features large woodwind and brass sections.
- Symphony No.9 (1908-1909) Mahler’s ninth and final symphony is one of the most heart-breaking pieces of music ever written. A superstitious man, Mahler believed firmly in the so-called ‘curse of the ninth’, which had already ‘killed’ Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner.
- Mozart – Symphony No. 41. Mozart’s final symphony was also his best – and it’s no coincidence that it’s subtitled ‘Jupiter’, either. Mozart threw absolutely everything at this epic, his longest symphony.
- Florence Price – Symphony No.1. In 1932, Florence Price took home first prize in a competition for her glorious Symphony No.1 in E minor, a thrilling four-movement work packed with soaring melodies.
- Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 (‘Choral’) Written when the composer himself was profoundly deaf, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is without question, one of the greatest works in the classical repertoire, labelled by Classic FM presenter and Beethoven expert, John Suchet, as “the culmination of Beethoven’s genius”.
- Mahler – Symphony No. 2 (‘Resurrection’) This masterful symphony was Mahler’s most loved work during his own lifetime, and an absolute triumph at its premiere.
Jul 26, 2023 · Symphony No. 7 is the most enigmatic and rarely performed of the Mahler cycle, but the composer himself called it his finest work. Across its evocation of nature, a many-layered nighttime, and a “bright day” of a finale, its emotional and thematic variety is remarkable—even by Mahler’s standards.
- Symphony No.2, ‘Resurrection’
- Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of A Thousand’
- Symphony No.5
- Das Lied Von Der Erde
- Symphony No. 9
- Kindertotenlieder
- Symphony No. 1, ‘Titan’
- Piano Quartet in A Minor
- Symphony No.6, ‘Tragic’
- Symphony No. 3
Diving straight in with one of the most powerful and evocative symphonies in the repertoire: Mahler’s famous Second Symphony. In its day (1895), this was a work of unprecedented scale, with a full chorus, enormous string section, organ, doubled wind and brass, a whole host of percussion (including church bells and seven timpani), and soprano and al...
Mahler’s approach to symphonies was simple: the bigger the better. This could not be truer for his Eighth Symphony, aptly called the ‘Symphony Of A Thousand’ because the 1910 premiere required just that: 858 singers, including eight soloists, two mixed choruses and a children’s choir, and 171 instrumentalists. Also quintessentially Mahler is the de...
The Fifth Symphony (1902), one of Mahler’s best works, leans slightly more towards conventionality than Mahler’s other symphonies. For this piece, he eschews the use of a narrative program as well as the enormous vocal textures of his previous symphonies and instead takes an almost-autobiographical approach. After a serious illness in 1901, Mahler ...
Based on six poems that were originally translated from Chinese under the name The Chinese Flute, Song Of The Earthtackles the existential issues of life, nature, beauty and death. The entrancing score travels through a myriad of emotions, with careful optimism contrasted with bitterness, struggle, and resigned acceptance. The rich, transportive to...
Mahler completed the last of his colossal symphonies in 1909. By this time, he had been diagnosed with a heart condition and knew that his own death was potentially imminent. Faced again with his own mortality, the Ninth is often seen as Mahler’s farewell. Direct quotations from Beethoven’s ‘Farewell’ Sonata and irregular rhythms in the first movem...
Perhaps best understood as a homage to the eight siblings Mahler lost in his childhood, Kindertotenlieder is a set of five profoundly emotive songs. Mahler takes his text from poems by Rückert, who, after the death of two of his children, channeled his grief into 428 poems. Although the anguish and misery are tangible, there’s almost a clarity to t...
Mahler poured everything but the kitchen sink into his symphonic debut, which covers a myriad of ideas from life, to death, nature, personal trauma, and philosophical thought. He later rejected the title he had given it, not wanting to limit the universality of its meaning. There are several remarkable things about this groundbreaking symphony. The...
His sole surviving piece of chamber instrumental music, Mahler’s Piano Quartet, offers insight into his early compositional development – it was written during his first year at the Vienna Conservatory when he was aged around 15. Often overshadowed by the mighty symphonies, this piece is something of a hidden gem. It is easy to hear the beginnings ...
Buckle up, because this one is subtitled the ‘Tragic Symphony’. Unlike its predecessors, which wrestle with tragedy and often triumph, the conclusion of the Sixth is so expressively desperate it feels almost dangerous. The finale famously features three hammer strikes, three ‘blows of fate’, as the chilling metal blows reverberate around the orches...
By his third symphony, Mahler had honed his detail-orientated, vastly complex compositional style. This symphony was an epic ode to nature, in the composer’s own words: “all stages of evolution in a step-wise ascent. It begins with inanimate nature and ascends to the love of God.” Again Mahler uses vocal colors and textures in the unconventionally ...
- Alice Benton
May 13, 2022 · Mahler’s symphonies are immense works of the stage that have enthralled their audiences, and have influenced composers such as Shostakovich, Schoenberg, and Britten. Even today, audiences rush to hear these symphonies performed, to be taken on a journey of emotional extremes, musical mastery, and to peek at the world of Mahler’s imagination.
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Best of all is Bernstein himself, here at his exciting best, giving daemonic edge to the music where it is appropriate and building the symphony inexorably to its final triumph. Thanks to a very clear and well-balanced recording, every subtlety of scoring, especially some of the lower strings' counterpoint, comes through as the conductor intended.
