's was completed in 1880. Shortly afterward, turned the work down for performance, and , increasingly in the grip of mental illness, pulled a gun on a train and claimed that had rigged the train with dynamite. The work was forgotten and not performed until 1989. It has been recorded a few times, but this reading by conductor and the on is the first on a major label apart from, perhaps, a reading from 1993 on , and learned about the symphony when he ran across it on the Internet. was a star student of , who knew his works well and may have emulated them, called "the founder of the new symphony as I myself understand it." The Scherzo of this symphony is Mahlerian, and there are influences of and as well. , for the most part, fills his large structures with energy, even in the nearly 25-minute finale. , already an expert Mahlerian, was an ideal choice here, and the players are top-notch in the many solo passages. He makes the case that this symphony belongs in the regular repertory, and listeners for whom this is a first exposure to the work may well agree. ~ James Manheim