Credits:

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Description:

Ashkenazy's second Mahler series! Ashkenazy explains, "The contrast between the first movement, which is called a funeral march, and the fourth movement, which has the brightest and warmest musical expression in Mahler's music and expresses Mahler's feelings for his wife, is what makes this music so interesting. The contrast between the brightest and warmest musical expression and the fourth movement, which expresses Mahler's love for his wife, is what makes this music so special. The way in which the wind instruments resonate with both transparency and gravity is an expression that could only come from Ashkenazy. The pure Mahler image emerges here, free of any pretense. Octavia Records