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BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 14 - Mahler's Symphony No 9

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Prom 14 - Mahler's Symphony No 9

25/07/2011

2011

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Roger Norrington leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 9.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Roger Norrington conducts the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 9, the composer's last completed score.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

Mahler's last completed symphony, and one he never lived to hear, is brought to life in the Royal Albert Hall by Sir Roger Norrington in one of his final concerts as Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, a post he has held for 13 years.

The Ninth Symphony was a work written at a time of personal crisis for Mahler, following the death of his daughter Maria, the loss of his job at the Vienna Court Opera and the diagnosis of his own heart disease. Musically, however, while allusions to death abound, ultimately the work fades into peaceful resignation; as Alban Berg described it: "it expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, of nature, the longing to live in peace, to enjoy it completely to the very heart of one's being, before death comes, as irresistibly it does".

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) 
Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 27th July at 2pm.

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All broadcasts from the 117th season of the BBC Proms.

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