Mahler - Symphony No. 9
Genres:
Orchestral » Symphonies
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It is masterly, wonderfully paced and finely detailed. The Berlin Philharmonic has never sounded like this since the 1980s. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Recording of the Year
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedArleen Augér (soprano - Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Engineering
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Orchestral
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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The emphasis here is on beautifully judged line and flow, allowing the music's expressive extremes to speak for themselves without any need for exaggeration…This is one of those special listening... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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This new release of Mahler’s profoundest symphony is a live recording with all the detailed eloquence and intensity one might expect from Simon Rattle in concert. Yet it also suggests a maturing... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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You can always expect insights from Iván Fischer's energised Budapest Festival Orchestra, and he has his own distinctive view on this most traumatic and ultimately transcendent of symphonies…for... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th May 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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On a technical level this must, I think, be the finest recording the work has received. Every note is audible - and the achievement of the orchestra (still more extraordinary than that of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Claudio Abbado began his career with Mahler and has been conducting the composer for his entire professional life. The Ninth and, above Orchestral Mahler 704 all, the Seventh, have consistently... —
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Building a Library, May 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Editor's Choice
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Listeners will have their own pantheon of classic Mahler Ninth recordings but here is one that demands to be heard...First choice or not, this is a memorably bracing take on a masterpiece that... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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The reach of the strings (breadth and depth) in the valedictory final movement is noticeably diminished from what can be so readily achieved with modern instruments but countering that the honesty... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The Eighth symphony, strongly cast and superbly recorded, is one of the finest in the catalogue. There’s a moment at the end of the first movement where each of the eight choral lines soars... —
