From the Royal Festival Hall, London, a performance of Symphony No 9 by Gustav Mahler in which Georg Solti conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend
Introduced by Donald Mitchell and John Warrack
Mahler's ninth is a work of epic proportions which the composer never heard in performance. It was written in 1909, two years before his death and received its premiere in 1912.

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