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In this complete edition compiled by BR-KLASSIK, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of its longtime principal conductor Mariss Jansons, explores Mahler’s symphonic œuvre. The complete recording of Mahler’s impressive symphonies is complemented Symphonies is supplemented by revealing rehearsal recordings and interesting interviews. In his nine symphonies, Gustav Mahler built up an entire worldview for himself and his listeners. Like hardly any other composer, he tried in his symphonic works to get to the bottom of the cycle of life, that eternal cycle of becoming and passing away. Which Complete work would be better suited to express the qualities of a conductor and the unique sound ideal of a leading orchestra of our time? What fascinated and moved him about Mahler’s music throughout his life, Mariss Jansons was able to put into simple and clear words: it is always about the whole and contains everything that exists in the world at all exists in the world. Nature, faith, love, death, pain, tragedy, happiness, humor, utopia, irony, sarcasm – everything that makes up human existence was captured by Mahler in his symphonies. His music poses questions that ultimately every thinking person must ask. And everyone can find something in it in which in which he recognizes himself as in a mirror. Nevertheless, there are no definitive answers in Mahler’s work, “nothing triumphant that is at one with itself.” Even at his first encounter with Mahler, this experience struck Jansons like a bolt of lightning; he felt “as if he were in heaven” – and, as he himself put it, was never disappointed. Gradually he developed into one of the leading Mahler conductors of his time. That he had a partner for this path in the BRSO an orchestra with a long Mahler tradition as a partner, was certainly a fortunate coincidence. (The former principal conductor Rafael Kubelík had established the orchestra’s Mahler tradition in the early 1960s) The great Mahler experience of the Munich orchestra also triggered a certain a certain amount of respect: After taking office as principal conductor at the BRSO, Jansons waited three years before conducting a Mahler symphony for the first time. In 2006, he began with the extremely complicated Fifth (which he had already conducted as a guest with his later orchestra in 1995) he was credited with what would also characterize his later Mahler interpretations: a perhaps ideal balance between emotionality and control, between the greatest possible intensity and a precise sense of the borderline to the emotional. Over the years, Jansons brought performed all of Mahler’s symphonies in Munich, conducting only the Fifth and Seventh a second time, with a ten-year break in each case. In addition to the nine symphonies on two CDs, this set includes revealing rehearsal recordings of the Third (2010) and Fifth (2016) symphonies, concert guides to the Seventh, and interviews with Jansons on the Fourth (2010) and Seventh (2007) symphonies. Jansons’s fascination with Mahler’s music is vividly conveyed in his comments during rehearsals as well as in the interviews. |
