Orchestre de Paris & Christoph Eschenbach
Mahler - Symphony No. 7
Video Director: François Goetghebeur - Artist: Orchestre de Paris & Christoph Eschenbach - Producer: LGM - Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach - Composer: Gustav Mahler - Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris
Mahler - Symphony No. 7
Conductor Christoph Eschenbach leads the Orchestre de Paris in the Seventh Symphony by Gustav Mahler, recorded at Salle Pleyel, Paris in 2009. This symphony for a big orchestra premiered in 1908 in Prague under Mahler himself. In a few weeks, the composition was already performed in the Netherlands and Germany, but the audience did not immediately love it. The symphony, consisting of five movements, has a more complicated tonal scheme than Mahler’s earlier symphonies. Two first parts of the symphony, called ‘Nachtmusik,’ are inspired by the night and Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ painting. The finale of the symphony is the most outrageously exuberant of Mahler's symphonies and ends in a strange but beautiful way.