蜜芽传媒

Conductor Yoel Gamzou, an artist steeped in Gustav Mahler's music, describes this piece as the one he "loves most in the world" and here he guides the 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic in a personal and all encompassing performance of Mahler's Symphony No.9.
Like Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner before him, the Ninth was to be the last symphony he finished. As he composed it, in the Dolomites during a period of ill-health and personal sorrow and anxiety, he considered this a last journey, from the faltering start, through, as Mahler describes it, a "clumsy" country waltz, via a virtuosic and defiant Mahlerian Rondo-Burleske, to a transcendental final Adagio; one which Yoel Gamzou describes as the "most heart-breaking farewell there is". This is music which stretches the bounds of orchestral writing, from a composer aware not only of his own mortality, but also mourning the end of an "old Europe" in the opening decade of the Twentieth Century.

Recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in April 2025 and presented by Mark Forrest

Mahler: Symphony No.9

蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Yoel Gamzou (conductor)

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