Gustav Mahler - Adagietto, Sehr Langsam | Herbert von Karajan

Adagietto. Sehr Langsam, IV Movement Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor, 1901-02. Herbert von Karajan famous performance at The Salzburg Festival Rare Live Recording Adagietto Studio Recording “Mahler is very difficult for an orchestra. First, you must, as a painter would say, make your palette. But the difficulty is great, and the greatest danger is that if it is not well performed the music can seem banal“ Herbert von Karajan Karajan waited so long to approach the symphonies of their fellow countryman Gustav Mahler. After the war he had been offered the chance to do all the Mahler symphonies but declined as the rehearsal time was not sufficient. Assigning a specific national identity to Mahler is, of course a somewhat tricky proposition. On the other hand, it is to his credit that the perfectionist Karajan refused to let himself be pressured by the gloating of critics into conducting Mahler merely to obey the dict