Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.7 (Part 1)

Continued here: "Gustav Mahler — Symphony No.7 (Part 2)"

Mahler’s Seventh Symphony is a forbidding work that can baffle the listener even more than the Third. The author of liner notes to one recording tries to help: “What idea might help comprehend the whole symphony? The same as the Third Symphony, it might be “the World”. But this time the composer has created a world where we would not find