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The Ninth Symphony is Gustav Mahler’s last completed work – an expressive farewell and at the same time a visionary anticipation of musical modernism. Since Mahler did not live to see the premiere of his Ninth, he could not complete his customary final revisions of the instrumental balance. “This provides a special challenge for all those who interpret this musical testament when examining the musical text,” says Kirill Petrenko. He is joined in this delicate task by the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Kirill Petrenko conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9
Kölner Philharmonie
30 to 195 €
Mahler’s music now features so regularly in the programmes of the Berliner Philharmoniker that it is all too easy to forget that this has not always been the case. True, Mahler himself conducted the orchestra on a handful of occasions but audiences in Berlin could initially make no sense of his musical world. Despite this there were conductors who even at this early date were keen to promote his works, which they did with both passion and persistence. It was they and their successors who laid the foundations for the orchestra’s Mahler tradition, a tradition that continues to leave its mark on the players today.