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Hope triumphs over despair: Dudamel conducts Mahler's Ninth in LA

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“Dudamel’s vision of the Ninth... surged forward, headlong into adventure”
Reviewed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles on 28 February 2019
Mahler, Symphony no. 9 in D major
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor
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