Album Reviews

Daniel Harding, Wiener Philharmonkier `Mahler 10' Deutsche Grammophon

Daniel Harding leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Gustav Mahler's 10th Symphony.

``I'm 32 going onto 50,'' said Harding, referring to the age Mahler was when he completed his Ninth Symphony before composing the 10th. The conductor himself is 32. Having debuted assisting Simon Rattle, he drives music with rigor in this powerful recording with the Vienna Philharmonic, Mahler's own orchestra.

``The very famous `scream' chord in the first movement, a nine-note dissonance, is an astonishing cry of anguish… But it's pure Edvard Munch in music,'' said the conductor. Technically immaculate, the ``dissonance'' personifies expressionism in all its glory.

- Lee Hyo-won