LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW week 6  "....Beethoven, Bruckner, Dvorak, none of them was given time to write a 10th symphony. Gustav Mahler, in order to escape from the 'fate of the 9th', simultaneously worked on his 9th Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde, which has all the characteristics of a symphony, including slow and fast movements and vocal soloists like in some of his other symphonies. Thus Mahler challenged the fate and completed 'Das Lied' as well as the Ninth Symphony; after that he would write a gorgeous slow movement for a projected, but not completed tenth symphony. He would never hear these last works performed. After the composer died in 1911, Bruno Walter presented Das Lied von der Erde and the Ninth Symphony to the world. Mahler's Symphony no. 9 in D major has four movements: the first is a long-stretched Andante comodo, the second movement is a Ländler (the outdoor version of the ballroom Viennese waltz), the third is a restless Rondo Burleske and the final movement is an Adagio that seems to be inspired by a sense of eternity…" [RNW-host Hans Haffmans]
photo: © Marco Borggreve
 
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 9 in D major (1909)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

 
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