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Mahler:
Symphony no.9 |
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ABOUT THIS SACD HYBRID SACD - also available on CD The completion of the acclaimed Chailly/Mahler cycle. Recorded right after a live performance of Mahler 9, Chailly’s last concert as music director of the Concertgebouw orchestra. The Ninth Symphony is Gustav Mahler's last completed symphony and is considered to be one of his "two greatest works," (the other being the song cycle Das Lied von der Erde). Like every one of Mahler's symphonies, if not most all his works, it is a grand musical exposition of his innermost conflicts, of the tensions arising from a profound fear of death and a genuine yearning for the joys of life. It is perhaps the most eloquent, purely orchestral expression of his lifetime obsession with death. In 1907 Mahler was told by his doctor that he had a fatal heart disease - a devastating death sentence for a man who was still then in the prime of his life. The anguish that so tormented his soul translated into the music that came to be considered his farewell to art and life - his Ninth Symphony, completed in the year before his death at age 50. But he never heard it played. |
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