Mahler - Symphony no.9
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900205
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 7th October 2022
Contents
Artists
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen RundfunksConductor
Simon RattleWorks
Symphony no.9 in D majorArtists
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen RundfunksConductor
Simon RattleAbout
Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, in particular, is understood as the composer’s reaction to a heart ailment that was diagnosed shortly before he wrote the first drafts in the summer of 1908. He was in deep despair, but still scarcely aware of how few years he actually had left to live. With Mahler, it was always in and through music that he tried to come to terms with his life experiences and such topics as farewell, the meaning of existence, death, redemption, life after death and love. He wrote his Ninth Symphony in Dobbiaco, in a kind of creative frenzy, between 1909 and 1910. Its premiere took place in Vienna on 26 June 1912, when the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed the work under Bruno Walter. Mahler did not witness the premiere of his last completed work – he had already died on 18 May 1911.
One of the first reactions to the premiere interpreted the syncopated rhythm at the beginning of the symphony’s first of four movements as imitating the beat of an ailing heart, and since Mahler had indeed died of a heart ailment, his last completed symphony was almost instantly associated with his death. Paul Bekker gave it the secret title “Was mir der Tod erzählt” (What Death Tells Me) and Peter Andraschke suspected quite specifically that Mahler had here, “probably due to his heart condition, composed his own premonition of death.”
Willem Mengelberg, the first passionate Mahler conductor, wrote more poetically in his score: “Mahler’s soul sings its farewell!” And Simon Rattle very recently stated: “This is about the whole world.”
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the last completed work by the Late Romantic composer, in an exemplary contemporary interpretation.
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays under its designated new chief conductor Simon Rattle.
“This is a piece that reveals the character of the performers – the conductor and the orchestra – like no other.” – Simon Rattle
Recording of performances from 26 and 27 November 2021 at the Isarphilharmonie, Gasteig HP8 in Munich
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