Mahler’s sprawling Symphony No. 7 has been called a continual “feast for the ear.” It takes orchestral color to extraordinary heights, with shrieking clarinets, “snap” pizzicatos in the basses, cow bells, a mandolin, and weird and unusual timbres.
On Friday morning, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra presented Mahler’s Seventh for the first time in more than a decade. Conducting the work, Matthias Pintscher, the CSO’s creative partner, brought both imagination and clarity to Mahler’s…
