Virtuoso Series: Mahler: Symphony No.5
Mahler said the symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything! and his Fifth Symphony, from its opening funeral march to the exuberance of the finale, certainly does just that. The use of its haunting Adagietto in Viscontis film Death in Venice, brought Mahlers music to the attention of a much wider public, 60 years after his death.
