This live performance of Mahler’s Seventh traces the symphony’s enigmatic arc with striking clarity and imagination. The opening movement emerges from a dark, unstable tread into a driven march and a rapt, moonlit lyricism, its restless contrasts kept firmly in focus. The two “Nachtmusik” movements are painted in finely etched detail: the first as an eerie, distant procession pierced by calls in the night, the second as an intimate serenade, its mandolin and guitar timbres gently tinged with irony. Between them, the ghostly scherzo waltz twists Viennese elegance into something sharply sardonic, every glint and shadow in the orchestration vividly profiled. In the finale, daylight in blazing C major arrives with almost insolent exuberance, the brass-laden rondo treading a thrilling line between celebratory affirmation and knowing parody. The orchestra’s virtuosity and the conductor’s evident affection for the work combine to illuminate Mahler’s visionary “song of the night” in all its ambiguity and exuberant, hard-won radiance.