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Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hall茅 Choir and Orchestra in Brahms's rarely heard cantata "N盲nie" and Mahler's 9th Symphony at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Presented by Stuart Flinders

Brahms: N盲nie

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Mahler: Symphony No.9

Hall茅 Choir and Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Brahms's rarely-heard N盲nie is a poignant setting of an elegy by Schiller that places great technical demands on its vocal forces. It ends with an homage to art, the role of which Schiller believed was to ensure immortality.
Though composed during a period of major crisis for Mahler, his Ninth Symphony is not all despair and desolation. The work manifests an ardent love of nature and of life in all its variety; an equally passionate impulse to heroically confront anguish; and unashamed pride in the composer's still undimmed creative powers. Its magnificent concluding Adagio - some of the most moving music ever written - closes in a serene mood of resignation and redemption.