MAHLER: SYM NO. 1

Paavo Jarvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich present the second volume of their complete Mahler Symphonies, with his First Symphony, known as the Titan in reference to the eponymous novel by the poet Jean-Paul that Mahler greatly admired. Although he abandoned this title three years after the symphonys premiere in 1893, the symphony has, like many of Mahlers works, a clearly programmatic character according to Paavo Jarvi: Mahler was a composer who was truly able to explore the inner world of human beings and to question what goes on inside us.