Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
Daniel Harding conducts Mahler on tour in Switzerland
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is as much a farewell to life as a celebration of its beauty.
Concert programme
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9
Performers
About this concert
With his Symphony No. 9, Mahler bade ‘farewell to all those he loved and to the world. And to his art, his life, his music,’ claimed Willem Mengelberg, chief conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1895 to 1945. At the same time, the symphony is an ode to the beauty of life. This extremely personal work has always had great significance for the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The performance on Bernard Haitink’s last Christmas Matinee, in 1987, is still etched in the minds of many. Now Daniel Harding leads the orchestra in the Ninth – first in Amsterdam, then in Abu Dhabi, Spain, England and Switzerland.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
With his Symphony No. 9, Mahler bade ‘farewell to all those he loved and to the world. And to his art, his life, his music,’ claimed Willem Mengelberg, chief conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1895 to 1945. At the same time, the symphony is an ode to the beauty of life. This extremely personal work has always had great significance for the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The performance on Bernard Haitink’s last Christmas Matinee, in 1987, is still etched in the minds of many. Now Daniel Harding leads the orchestra in the Ninth – first in Amsterdam, then in Abu Dhabi, Spain, England and Switzerland.