A Portrait, Vol. 7: Jascha Horenstein (Remastered 2022)

Jascha Horenstein delivers a powerful and structurally clear reading of Mahler's Symphony No. 1, "Titan," conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. The first movement emerges with a suspended atmosphere that opens into broad melodic spaces, while the second dances with restrained, robust energy. The third movement, with its ironic and visionary funeral march, leads to a fiery finale, in which orchestral storms and lyricism merge in a rousing climax. Horenstein balances tension and breadth, highlighting the orchestra's timbral palette and Mahler's complex architecture, in a recording that conveys freshness and dramatic power.