Riccardo Chailly - Mahler: The Symphonies (12CD Box Set, 2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (*tracks+.cue+.log,scans) | Run Time: 13:14:36 | 3,10 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca
Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra has a famous Mahler tradition, dating back to the composer's contemporary Willem Mengelberg. Chailly's 12-CD set of all 10 symphonies (including the last, completed by Deryck Cooke) will add to the lustre. Chailly recorded them over a decade, to a mixed reception. They are comparatively reticent and serious - "de-neuroticised", one reviewer put it - with an emphasis on the integrity of the overall structure rather than the immediate phrase.