Gustav Mahler features heavily in the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne’s programme for this and future seasons. Parallel to their performances at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, they are making studio productions of the highest audiophile sound quality which document the tonal and musical culture created through the orchestra’s years of collaboration with its GMD Markus Stenz.

The beginning of the complete cycle of Mahler’s symphonies features the Fifth, which received its premiere in 1904: in Cologne, with the Gürzenich Orchestra, under the composer’s baton! In order to do justice to the discographic demands of the project, all recordings in the series are being produced as hybrid SACDs.