Credits:

Eliahu Inbal (conductor)

Description:

Inbal brings the Czech Philharmonic a new era all in this Mahler Symphony No. 5! Eliahu Inbal's Mahler cycle with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra is going strong. This time, Mahler: Symphony No. 5 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he is now the Music Director! It was this Fifth Symphony with the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra in the 1980s that defined him as a Mahler conductor. The Czech Philharmonic also has its own tradition of Mahler performance, and this recording offers an unwavering Mahler image born of a different sensitivity to Mahler. As Inbal says, "I wanted to make authentic Mahler in Central Europe my highest ideal." As Inbal says, "I wanted to make the real Mahler in Central Europe my highest ideal," and this recording of No. 5 is different from all his previous recordings, containing all of the current Inbal and the current Czech Philharmonic. Octavia Records