The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Seventh Symphony by Gustav Mahler. This symphony for a big orchestra premiered in 1908 in Prague under the baton of the composer himself. In a few weeks the composition was already performed in the Netherlands and Germany, but the audience did not love the symphony at first glance. The symphony, consisting of five movements, has a complicated tonal scheme and could therefore be harder to listen to compared to his earlier symphonies. Two first parts of the symphony are inspired by the night and called 'Nachtmusik'. One of his sources for the movements is 'The Night Watch' by the painter Rembrandt. The finale of the symphony is the most outrageously exuberant of Mahler's symphonies and ends in a strange, but beautiful way.