Mahler: Symphony No. 9

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The emphasis here is on beautifully judged line and flow, allowing the music's expressive extremes to speak for themselves without any need for exaggeration…This is one of those special listening... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th May 2023
Catalogue No: BIS2476
Label: BIS
Length: 81 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Work length1:21:31

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Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

I. Andante comodo

Track length28:08

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Ii. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers

Track length16:45

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$7.00

Iii. Rondo-burleske

Track length12:31

$2.05

$3.85

$5.25

Iv. Adagio

Track length24:07

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For the latest instalment in their Mahler series, the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Osmo Vanska presents what many consider to be the pinnacle of the Austrian composer’s entire work, the Ninth Symphony , his last completed After a vast and emotionally intense first movement that shows an astonishing fluidity of form, theme, texture and tonality, ‘the most glorious thing Mahler has written’ according to Alban Berg, the second movement brings joy and playfulness and seems to evoke both an urban Straussian world and folk music cultures. To the bitter irony and anger of the third movement the last movement, a mystical Adagio, seems to respond with ineffable tenderness. Often regarded as the composer’s monumental both in terms of scale and emotional scope leave taking of the world, the Ninth Symphony can also be understood as a requiem for his daughter who died a few years before, an acknowledgment of the transience of life, a memorial to Vienna, an evocation of fading Austrian and Bohemian landscapes, a homage to a vanishing European cultural world.

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July 2023

The emphasis here is on beautifully judged line and flow, allowing the music's expressive extremes to speak for themselves without any need for exaggeration…This is one of those special listening experiences where the world afterwards is a different place.

August 2023

I can think of a number of Mahler sceptics who will be drawn to his Boulez-like objectivity.

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

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