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Record Review: Mahler's Symphony No 9 in Building a Library with Gillian Moore and Hannah French

Hannah French

Mahler's Symphony No 9 in Building a Library with Gillian Moore and Hannah French

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Mahler's Symphony No 9 in Building a Library with Gillian Moore and Hannah French

Gillian Moore compares recordings of Mahler's Ninth Symphony and chooses her favourite.

Gillian Moore compares recordings of Mahler's Ninth Symphony and chooses her favourite. Nigel Simeone reviews reissues of the Czech conductor Karel Ancerl.

with Hannah French

9.30 Building a Library
Gillian Moore compares recordings of Mahler's Ninth Symphony and chooses her favourite.

Mahler's final completed symphony is a monumental achievement ranging in emotion from wild passion to deep despair and finally resignation. He wrote it in 1908 and 1909 but did not live to see it performed. Leonard Bernstein said of the last movement: "It is terrifying, and paralyzing, as the strands of sound disintegrate. In ceasing, we lose it all. But in letting go, we have gained everything."

10.45
Nigel Simeone reviews reissues of the Czech conductor Karel Ancerl. He was born into a wealthy Jewish family and imprisoned in Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Unlike his wife and young son, Ančerl survived Auschwitz. Between 1950 and 1968 he was artistic director of the Czech Philharmonic. Following the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to Canada, where he worked as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra until his death in 1973. He is particularly known for the distinctly Czech sound he managed to get from the Czech Philharmonic and other orchestras.

11.20
Record of the Week
Hannah recommends an outstanding new release.

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