Mahler month → The performer
The final sounding in my series of posts leading up to tomorrow’s WCFSO performance of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony comes from the man himself. On November 9, 1905 Mahler visited the Welte & Sohne studios in Leipzig and recorded several piano rolls of his own music using the Welte-Mignon system; the rolls from that day are the only audio documentation of Mahler’s approach as a performer. Here is the most substantial and fascinating performance from that session a century ago - the entire first movement of his Fifth Symphony:
Mahler – Symphony no 5, Trauermarsch - mp3
Gustav Mahler, piano from Mahler Plays Mahler
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