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My suggestion to you is an album released on 6^th October, 2014, by the Deutsche Grammophon record house, which carries the signature of the extremely famous conductor of the moment, Gustavo Dudamel. It is the great Symphony No.7 by Gustav Mahler, which was recorded together with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela. Dudamel has been the musical director of this orchestra since 1999 - that is, since he was only eighteen years of age.

Dudamel's case is indeed a special one - today he is only thirty-three years old, but he is a world-wide celebrity; and this is not only due to a very good marketing strategy, but also to his special conducting talent ; he is very dedicated to his art and has exceptional results. Leaving aside his precison and efficiency, it is impossible not to admire the passion that Dudamel invests in each of his interpretations;the public resonates to it and is simply enchanted by what Dudamel creates on the stage.

Dudamel and Gustav Mahler

There is also a very strong bond between Dudamel and the Gustav Mahler's music; Dudamel became known world-wide after winning the competition conducted by Gustav Mahler in Brandenburg in 2003. And in the last years he has recorded four out of the ten Mahlerian symphonies which lead to this album with the Symphony No. 7 by Mahler, being the fifth of this series.

Symphony No.7 by Mahler is, as Gustavo Dudamel shows, 'a total symphony - from chaos to glory, from sarcasm to tenderness, from a funerary march to a seductive tango. It is a cosmic symphony with a perfect construction and an emotional goal at a galactic level.'

Symphony No. 7 by Mahler

Mahler started working on Symphony No.7 in 1904, and the premiere, which had many retouches, took place in 1908. There were years in which Mahler went from heaven to hell in his personal life - from a very stable situation both professionally and personally to the knowledge that he suffered from an incurable heart condition and to mourning his older daugher; and his passing from effusiveness to depression is felt in this seventh symphony which lasts for almost eighty minutes.