Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
From the opening's haunting strings and distant fanfares, Järvi masterfully paints a picture of the work's vivid landscape, taking in all its subtlety and grandeur throughout.
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
From the opening's haunting strings and distant fanfares, Järvi masterfully paints a picture of the work's vivid landscape, taking in all its subtlety and grandeur throughout.
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Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich present the second volume of their complete Mahler Symphonies, with his First Symphony, known as the "Titan" in reference to the eponymous novel by the poet Jean-Paul that Mahler greatly admired. Although he abandoned this title three years after the symphony's premiere in 1893, the symphony has, like many of Mahler’s works, "a clearly programmatic character" according to Paavo Järvi: "Mahler was a composer who was truly able to explore the inner world of human beings and to question what goes on inside us.”
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2025
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Presto Recording of the Week26th December 2025
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Gramophone MagazineNovember 2025Editor's Choice
January 2026
From the opening's haunting strings and distant fanfares, Järvi masterfully paints a picture of the work's vivid landscape, taking in all its subtlety and grandeur throughout.
November 2025
Järvi and his Zurich orchestra really do make it feel and sound brand new...Put simply this account rekindles much of the excitement that I for one experienced in hearing the piece for the first time. Heartily recommended.
26th December 2025
After a magical, mysterious opening, the subsequent shift to D major leading through to the end of the first movement is as radiant and joyous as it gets...The stormy final movement begins with great energy and ferocity, giving way to a melting, most affecting contribution from the Zürich strings in the fervent, impassioned slower sections.
