Mahler: Symphony No. 9

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This new release of Mahler’s profoundest symphony is a live recording with all the detailed eloquence and intensity one might expect from Simon Rattle in concert. Yet it also suggests a maturing... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: 900205
Label: BR Klassik
Length: 78 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Symphonic Music
Gramophone Magazine

December 2022

Editor's Choice
Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Nominated - Conductor of the Year

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Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Work length1:18:50

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Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Sir Simon Rattle

I. Andante comodo (Live)

Track length27:10

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II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers (Live)

Track length15:25

$4.00

$5.15

$7.00

III. Rondo-burleske (Live)

Track length12:16

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

IV. Adagio (Live)

Track length23:59

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For the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the performances on November 26 and 27, 2021 in the Isarphilharmonie marked the beginning of a new chapter in its Mahler interpretation: with its designated new principal conductor Simon Rattle, the orchestra is now headed by a Mahler admirer every bit as ardent as his predecessors Jansons, Maazel and Kubelík. The musicians dedicated the benefit concert on November 26 to the memory of conductor Bernard Haitink, who died in October 2021 and was associated with the renowned orchestra for 61 years. The very long silence after the final chord was one of those “goosebump moments” that one goes to concerts for – and for which music is made in the first place.

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December 2022

This new release of Mahler’s profoundest symphony is a live recording with all the detailed eloquence and intensity one might expect from Simon Rattle in concert. Yet it also suggests a maturing in his approach, an interpretive longersightedness, in which Mahler’s huge movements are unfolded as wholes rather than as sequences of apocalyptic moments.

May/June 2023 y/June 2023

There have been some great recordings of Mahler’s Ninth over the years...but Rattle’s latest leaps indubitably to the top of the pile. He tones down the music’s aggressiveness, overwrought passion, and at times the brutality. Every line is shaped with warmth, tenderness, and loving care without sacrificing urgency…Rattle is finely tuned to the myriad details of the score without ever sounding fussy or pedantic.

December 2022

There’s a spontaneity and immediacy about this Mahler Ninth that feels like it’s not for repetition.

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

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