Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr.7

Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle Orkest Zürich continue their complete cycle of Mahler symphonies with the Seventh, which is considered one of his most complex and demanding symphonies: "The Mahler we get to know in Symphony No. 7 is more complex, darker and more philosophical than the Mahler we know from his earlier works," according to Paavo Järvi. Mahler, who was very busy as director of the Weense Opera, composed this symphony in the summers of 1904 and 1905 on the shores of the Wörthersee in Austria. This symphony, also known as the "Lied von der Nacht", is characterized by rich orchestration (including a guitar and a mandoline in the fourth movement) and spectacular orchestral effects: "Nature roars here," Mahler said about the solo of the tenor horn at the beginning of the work.