
Michael Gielen’s Mahler Sixth is a grim affair indeed. Setting off with a relentlessly heavy tread, Gielen leads a first movement that is the very
Gielen’s is an easygoing La Mer, one with calm seas rather than storm surges. Even the Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea comes across
Michael Gielen has a solid reputation as a conductor of Bruckner and Mahler, and this new Resurrection Symphony upholds it handsomely. His reading of Symphony