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Helmut Lachenmann in conversation with Catherine Milliken Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
Here, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle perform Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. Many regard this work as a kind of musical harbinger of death – partly because Mahler died a year after its completion, but principally because the character of the symphony is determined by disintegration and dissolution. The press wrote that the orchestra was “rarely to be heard as well-balanced and dedicated” as in this concert.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
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