While Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major was his last completed symphony and came to be regarded as his farewell to life (notwithstanding the substantial effort he put into writing his unfinished Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major, which wasn't heard in a complete performing version until the 1960s), there is a case to be made for this penultimate symphony as a climactic engagement with the forces of existence, rather than as a last will and testament. Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra deliver a ...
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While Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major was his last completed symphony and came to be regarded as his farewell to life (notwithstanding the substantial effort he put into writing his unfinished Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major, which wasn't heard in a complete performing version until the 1960s), there is a case to be made for this penultimate symphony as a climactic engagement with the forces of existence, rather than as a last will and testament. Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra deliver a powerful reading that contends with Mahler's characteristic themes of death, fate, conflict, and reconciliation, which are all familiar from the earlier symphonies; yet they give the Ninth a muscular vigor and visceral excitement that seem to balance, if not wholly override, the morbidity of the first movement and the ecstasy of the finale. This is music of an internal struggle, and Harding emphasizes the tension that grows out of Mahler's increasingly dissonant counterpoint and...
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