Munich Philharmonic
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Lorin Maazel
conductor
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 9 in D major
For Gustav Mahler’s friends and contemporary admirers, it was clear as day what his Ninth Symphony represented: “”What death tells me’ is the unwritten subtitle,” declared music writer Paul Bekker. And the conductor Willem Mengelberg even inscribed a concrete program into his rehearsal score: He interpreted the first movement as “Mahler’s farewell to love,” the second as a dance of death, and the third as “a futile attempt to escape death,” while in the heavenly finale, the wonderful Adagio, he heard “Mahler’s song of life.” Regardless of what one thinks of such interpretations, Mahler’s Ninth is the last work he was able to complete, and his handwritten remarks in the autograph score confirm that his own thoughts while composing it were marked by melancholy and remembrance: “O days of youth! Vanished! O love! Blown away!” he wrote in the manuscript of the opening movement. Lorin Maazel and the Munich Philharmonic will bring Mahler’s moving legacy to life.
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