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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 / Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 / Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra

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Details

Composer
Gustav Mahler
Artist
Minnesota Orchestra
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Apr 07, 2023
Catalog #
BIS-2476
UPC
7318599924762

About

For the latest instalment in their Mahler series, the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Osmo Vänskä presents what many consider to be the pinnacle of the Austrian composer’s entire work, the Ninth Symphony, his last completed symphony. 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.

Tracklist 4 tracks

  1. 1 I. Andante comodo 27:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Andante comodo
    Duration
    27:57
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Ensemble
    Minnesota Orchestra
    Conductor
    Osmo Vänskä
  2. 2 II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers - Etwas täppisch und sehr derb 16:35
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers - Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
    Duration
    16:35
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Ensemble
    Minnesota Orchestra
    Conductor
    Osmo Vänskä
  3. 3 III. Rondo-Burleske: Allegro assai 12:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo-Burleske: Allegro assai
    Duration
    12:25
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Ensemble
    Minnesota Orchestra
    Conductor
    Osmo Vänskä
  4. 4 IV. Adagio - Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend 23:39
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Adagio - Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend
    Duration
    23:39
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Ensemble
    Minnesota Orchestra
    Conductor
    Osmo Vänskä