According to some it is his greatest symphonic achievement, for Schoenberg and Berg it is a brilliant example of harmonic invention, and critics have been attracted to it since its first performance. Yet Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony remains among the least known. Riccardo Chailly opens Filarmonica della Scala 's 2025 season by choosing a rare work, tortuous since its gestation in the summer of 1905, which occurred "in an access of fury" as his wife Alma wrote. Of this work the Maestro shows us all the richness, encapsulated in a vast and iridescent orchestral ensemble, which paints those unforgettable soundscapes typically Mahlerian.