Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Daniel Harding – Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding – Conductor
Although a valedictory mood underpins it, Mahler’s Ninth Symphony offers above all a profound meditation on the fate of humanity and seems to exude an immense love of life. Sustained by the commitment and excellence of the artists, this recording reveals the formal, technical and orchestral modernity of a work that was to exert a genuine fascination on the Viennese composers of the following generation.
Gustav Mahler [1860-1911]
1I. Andante comodo 28’05
2II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb 15’36
3III. Rondo. Burleske. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig 12’30
4IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend 26’23