Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Dudamel's Scherzo To Remember

…The Seventh is Mahler’s trickiest Symphony in almost every way. Baffling banalities next to arduous intricacies, questions of irony or naïveté, and turn-on-a-dime changes of mood. The rustic alpine sits next to an irregular waltz played like a Viennese Heurigen-orchestra that has collectively gone insane, sits next to Romeo and Juliet’s balcony in an overtly Italianate movement. The end is glorious-or-is-it-? splendor in Meistersingerish C-major.…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Dudamel's Scherzo To Remember

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.7, Gustavo Dudamel, DG