Recorded in October 2022, Alan Gilbert’s performance of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra is the first in a series of recordings captured at Hamburg’s iconic Elbphilharmonie, which first opened in 2017 and instantly became a draw for locals as well as tourists from around the world. Often nicknamed “Song of the Night,” the Seventh Symphony is one of Mahler’s most fantastical and expansive works, beginning in dusky mystery supposedly inspired by the sound of rowing oars on a mountain lake and ending in a blaze of sunlit glory. The work has long had a special place in Gilbert’s heart, and the performance shows the orchestra in top form as it brings this sprawling, virtuosic, brilliantly colored score to vivid life.

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