Eighteen years ago Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain took a huge gamble by appointing the youthful local Yannick Néget- Séguin as its Music Director. Now, when the Maestro returns to conduct in his native city, a lovefest ensues.
Works by Alban Berg and Gustav Mahler recently heralded this year’s concert season in Zurich, where Artist in Residence Janine Jansen gave a superb performance.
Music director Franz Welser-Möst returned to conduct a recent work of Johannes Maria Staud that fit remarkably well with Mahler’s final completed symphony.
Esa-Pekka Salonen brought maturity and experience to a searing account of Mahler’s last completed symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra on its best form.
Bernard Haitink conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a deeply moving account of Mahler's Ninth Symphony at the Barbican the day after the tragedy in Manchester.
A Mahler 9 with the Boston Symphony and Andris Nelsons is a testament to an ongoing collaboration which has deepened to the point that orchestra and conductor have become one.
The Israel Philharmonic's take on the work was initially hard to grasp. That was before we reached a glowing rendition of the Adagio, which was a hymn to life and a final farewell rolled into one.
The impression left by the closing moments of the Mahler and the silence that followed will remain in the memory of this reviewer for some time to come.
The Hallé ended its season on a high with a magnificent performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony finding the horn section, in particular, on glorious form.
Nicholas Angelich's Mendelssohn Piano Concerto reaches places that Nézet-Séguin's and the LPO's Mahler Ninth at the Royal Festival Hall rarely touched.
Amsterdam has an outstanding history for Mahler performances, but this fine Ninth from Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra lived up to all this history.
Perhaps the strongest aspect of Michael Tilson Thomas and Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s rendition of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony was their ability to heighten the piece’s contrasts, offering a vibrant depiction of the symphony’s raw emotional qualities.
With the exception of the St Petersburg Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is the only one I can recall walking onto a silent, empty, Usher Hall stage en masse. I don't know why this feature should strike me so – perhaps mere schoolteacher overtones. The welcome was warm and sustained until all 115 members were in place for Mahler’s monumental Symphony no.
There are, speaking in broad generalisations, two main ways that Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is performed. One sees it as the composer’s farewell to life, an elegy that celebrates, fears, stands tall, and refuses to go quietly into the good night.
It was announced shortly before tonight's concert that the advertised conductor, the London Philharmonic's Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, was indisposed. In a programme which included Mahler's enormous Symphony no. 9, it was no small thing for Australian conductor Matthew Coorey to take over at short notice.
Rotterdam’s annual Gergiev Festival is a very popular classical festival in The Netherlands and with good reason, their programs are always excellent and the appearance of former chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Valery Gergiev usually attracts big crowds.
Mahler's Ninth Symphony – his last complete work in the genre – was written in 1908-9, against a backdrop of considerable personal tragedy and uncertainty.
Quel événement que la venue du légendaire Philharmonique de Vienne à Lyon ! C'est avec une transcendante Neuvième de Mahler que les Viennois renforcent encore davantage leur réputation.
El veterano director húngaro Ádám Fischer, de gira por España con la Sinfónica de Düsseldorf, presentó la significativa y trascendente Novena de Mahler en el Auditorio Nacional.
Das Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra zeigt in Amsterdam eine bewegende Aufführung, in der man sich der Einzigartigkeit eines jeden Augenblicks wehmütig bewusst wird.
El Festival de Santander, en el contexto de una programación diversa, sabiamente diseñada y llena de alicientes de primer orden, ha ofrecido al público español la oportunidad de lujo de disfrutar de la presencia de Sir Simon Rattle y la London Symphony Orchestra con dos programas que serán recordados largo tiempo en su historia.
Daniel Harding und das Orchestre de Paris sind diese Woche mit Antoine Tamestit auf Tournee. Jörg Widmann schreibt dem Bratscher 7 verschiedene Standorte vor und wirft mit ausführlichen Regieanweisungen in ein neues Licht die Rolle des Solisten im klassischen Konzert.
El CNDM presentó la cuarta edición de ¡Solo Música! Cinco orquestas dieron vida a las "Nueve Novenas" y Víctor Pablo Pérez acometió la titánica labor de dirigirlas todas. Al piano se presentaron las Sinfonías de Beethoven en transcripción de Liszt y se cerró un día de música para todos con fuegos articiales y música de Handel.
Par son irrégularité, son mépris du schéma, sa durée, la 9ème de Mahler est l’une des plus difficiles à interpréter. Malgré un agenda déjà chargé dans le répertoire scénique, l'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris et Philippe Jordan ont consenti à sortir de la fosse pour nous la faire entendre dans toute sa splendeur.
Myung-Whun Chung a offert à Pleyel une saisissante interprétation de cette symphonie funeste: depuis les tourments du premier mouvement jusqu'à la sérénité finale, l'auditoire est resté sous le choc.
