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Afternoon Concert: Proms 2011 Repeats: Prom 14 - Mahler's Symphony No 9

Prom 14 - Mahler's Symphony No 9

27/07/2011

Proms 2011 Repeats

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Proms 2011 Repeats, Prom 14 - Mahler's Symphony No 9

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

Louise Fryer presents a Prom in which Roger Norrington conducts the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

With Louise Fryer. 

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 what was 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".

Presented by Penny Gore

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 

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

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