Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
It is surprising to think that these pieces were written just a few years apart. Brahms, composing in 1878 for his great friend, violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, is clearly rooted in 19th-century traditions. Only six years later, Mahler opens his symphony with an astonishingly long sustained chord, which belies the drama and urgency to come. His music has an air of discovery that looks toward an unknown future.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck, Music Director and Conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin
BRAHMS
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Violin Concerto
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MAHLER
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Symphony No. 1, "Titan"
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Excerpt from Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op.77 (III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco piú presto)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin / Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon
Excerpt from Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major (IV. Sturmisch bewegt)
Luca Pisaroni, Bass-baritone / SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern
Naxos Rights International
Mahler: The Symphonies in Sequence
Gustav Mahler once famously declared, “the symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.” In this introduction to Mahler’s symphonies, trace his lifelong creative path from the exuberant Romanticism of his First Symphony to the haunted music of his last.
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