It’s amazing that it can happen again and again to suddenly hear a new work that you think you know by heart. Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Isarphilharmonie, Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony: This begins with a trumpet solo that Alexandre Baty places wonderfully calmly in the room, lets the notes swing out, gives them a lot of time. And the way Daniel Harding takes it, conducts the entire first movement, the funeral march, with an explicit calmness, very slowly, very calmly, without anything falling apart, that’s really great. The turmoil in the middle of the movement is even louder, a reminder of roaring life. If the funeral march continues afterwards, it sounds warmer, softer, more rural, simply wonderful.
Munich Philharmonic, Daniel Harding and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. – Munich
