LPO: Mahler 9 - Note change of programme and conductor

The composer fell hopelessly for the violinist at the turn of the twentieth century and set about immortalizing their relationship in a rhapsodic, emotion-filled piece. But the affair was soon over; their partnership pulled in too many directions by the pressure of work and performance. Gustav Mahler knew all about that. Torn between America and Austria in his final years, Mahler would return from New York to his Alpine hut to compose in the summer. The idyllic peace he experience there permeates the Ninth Symphony – imbued with a remarkable sense of homecoming, but marked with the indelible print of a final farewell