Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Orchestre de Paris in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 6. Recorded at the Salle Pleyel, Paris in 2007. The three hammer blows in the finale of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 seem prophetic: Mahler lost his position at the Wiener Staatsoper one year after this work premiered in 1906, his daughter died, and Mahler was diagnosed with a cardiac anomaly. A per...
