Credits:

Dimitri Mitropoulos

Description:

The first installment of our Mahler 150th Anniversary Celebration!Featuring Mitropoulosa pioneer in Mahler interpretationand the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing Mahlers Tragic, one of his most accomplished works!2010 is also a commemorative year marking the 200th anniversaries of Chopin and Schumanns births; the annual La Folle Journe festival features a Chopin program, and various Chopin and Schumann CDs have been released. However, while this year also marks the 150th anniversary of Mahlers birth, the fact that its a half-century milestonerather than a full centurymay make it harder to generate the same level of excitement as for composers like Chopin. Nevertheless, since the 200th anniversary is still a long way off, 50 years from now, we have decided to take the liberty of releasing Mahler-related recordings as part of our own commemorative series. The first release in t