Mahler: Symphony No 5

"Bernstein at his exciting best"- Gramophone

By general consent, Bernstein's Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mahler's kaleidoscopic Fifth Symphony - with its unforgettable Adagietto used in Visconti's film Death in Venice - is still unbeatable in terms of emotional heft. Répertoire magazine called it "the Mahler Fifth that dominates the discography".

"…Best of all is Bernstein himself, here at his exciting best, giving daemonic edge to the music where it is appropriate and building the symphony inexorably to its final triumph. Thanks to a very clear and well-balanced recording, every subtlety of scoring, especially some of the lower strings' counterpoint, comes through as the conductor intended…" Gramophone Top ten Mahler Symphony Recordings

"etwas Aufregenderes als den zweiten Satz der 5.Mahler-Symphonie kann es kaum geben: Bernstein treibt die Wiener Philharmoniker (..) zu beispielloser Ekstatik" Joachim Kaiser/Süddeutsche Zeitung

„von all den Interpretationen der V. Mahler, die Bernstein mit den Wiener Philharmonikern gewagt hat, ist die aus dem Jahr 1988 die letzte, reifste, gewagteste" Kurier / Wien