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.
The late withdrawal of a conductor could indeed be tragic, especially when the work in question is as open to individual interpretation as Mahler's Sixth Symphony. However, Daniel Harding does a superlative job with the Berlin Philharmonic.
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