Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.5 (Sony BMG Audio CD)

This is the fifth release in David Zinman & Tonhalle Zurich’s Mahler Symphony cycle, which is set to be complete by 2010.

Having completed several cycles, among them the complete Beethoven symphonies (with over 1 million copies sold internationally), the orchestral works of R. Strauss and Schumann, in 2007 the orchestra embarked on this Mahler Symphony cycle.

The previous releases in the series have received staggering praise from the critics (see below) and the series is heralded as one of the most important Mahler cycles of all time:
“The scrupulous musicality and fidelity to the score…make this account of Mahler’s symphonies one of the most compelling of recent date… Zinman crowns this outstanding performance with a finale of rapt, hymnic beauty, as moving as any I know on disc”
The Sunday Times

“David Zinman and the Tonhalle's Zurich Mahler series may well become as celebrated as their Beethoven. Highly recommended”
The Independent on Sunday