It was described as “the first nihilist work in the history of music” by the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. We look at the story behind Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.
Der finnische Dirigent eröffnete das Musikfest Berlin mit einer atemberaubenden Interpretation der Sechsten Symphonie Mahlers, ergänzt um das sphärische Triptychon Orion von Kaija Saariaho.
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