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	Symphony No. 9 (Mahler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 9 by the composer Gustav Mahler was written in 1909 and 1910, and was the last symphony that he completed.
		As is often the case in Mahler, one of the middle movements is a ländler.
		It is reminiscent of the second movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony in the distortion of a traditional dance into a dance of death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Mahler) (600 words)

	Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler, known as the Symphony of a Thousand, was mostly written in 1906, with its vast orchestration and final touches completed in 1907.
		The music is continuous but can be regarded as consisting of three sections corresponding to the last three movements of the classical symphony: first, a slow adagio section lasting for fifteen minutes with almost no singing; then a scherzo-like section; and finally a quick and lively finale.
		This symphony marks the return to the usage of voices since the fourth symphony, the usage of a chorus since the third symphony, and a chorus with male voices since the second symphony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Mahler) (1041 words)

	Gustav Mahler - Music Downloads - Online
		Mahler's orchestral music is clear, complex, and full of musical imagery, from the heavenly to the banal (the family lived near a military barracks, so march tunes sometimes appear; an argument was associated with the sound of a hurdy-gurdy outside the window).
		The traumas of the 20th century are expressed in the Symphony no. 9 (especially the "Adagio"); the elusiveness of beauty and its loss among harshness and modern tragedies are the subjects of the first and fifth symphonies.
		Mahler discovered the verbal expression of this auditory imagery in poems translated from the Chinese of the T'ang dynasty; Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") was the musical result, expressing the transience of all things in a mixture of warmth and severe beauty.
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	Mahler: Symphony No. 9
		The Ninth is Mahler's last completed symphony and is considered to be one of his "two greatest works," (the other being the sublime song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his symphonic work for voice and orchestra).
		Like every one of Mahler's symphonies, if not most all his works, it is a grand musical exposition of his innermost conflicts, of the tensions arising from a profound fear of death and a genuine yearning for the joys of life.
		In 1907 Mahler was told by his doctor that he had a fatal heart disease - a devastating death sentence for a man who was still then in the prime of his life.
	www.ffaire.com /ozawa/mahler9.html (296 words)

	classical music - andante - gustav mahler
		Mahler clearly wanted to build his church on granite, with the result that the work as a whole is of almost immutable tonal stability: 'How often does this movement come to E-flat, for instance on a four-six chord', Schoenberg wrote of the opening movement.
		Mahler's incomparable genius in balancing his massed forces, the evident wealth of melodic invention based on a very limited number of cells and the splendour of the two codas could not fail to fascinate the audience.
		Mahler had been right to fear the fatal number: on the day when Das Lied von der Erde (his veritable Ninth Symphony) was launched upon its successful career, he had already been dead for several months, no doubt enjoying the heavenly bliss promised by the Eighth.
	www.andante.com /profiles/Mahler/symph8.cfm (2580 words)

	SoundStage! Mahler - Symphony No. 9
		Mahler's Ninth Symphony was completed in 1910 and is the central work in his great final trilogy: Das Lied von der Erde, the uncompleted Tenth being the other two works.
		There is certainly a strong case to be made for the Ninth as the greatest symphony of the 20th century, and there is a wealth of great performances of the Ninth already available on CD, including two by Bruno Walter, who gave the work's first performance in 1912, after the composer's death.
		Perhaps surprisingly, given his reputation, Boulez (DG) is no icy-cold detached observer, but summons from the Chicago SO a warm performance of fine detail and superb feeling for the architecture of the music, albeit in a relentlessly two-dimensional recording.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev134.htm (747 words)

	The Mahler Symphonies: Symphony No 9 by Tony Duggan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		No complaints, however, with the way he appreciates the importance of the three different tempo markings Mahler is careful to make.
		There is no question in my mind that, after all these years, this still is one of the greatest recordings of the work and that it should be considered alongside those dealt with so far.
		No more so than in the Ninth where his tempi are fast right the way through and his general treatment of the music so apparently perfunctory I'm tempted to wonder whether something had upset him prior to the sessions.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /Mahler/mahler9.htm (12844 words)

	INKPOT#94 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: MAHLER Symphony No.9. Chicago SO/Boulez (DG)
		Mahler had finally learned to accept his destiny and strove to achieve as much as possible, as soon as possible.
		Pierre Boulez's Mahler Ninth Symphony on DG has raised the eyebrows of many music lovers in the broadest manner possible, with reactions ranging from heartfelt admiration to unforgiving damnation forming the basis of many reviews in music magazines and websites.
		That the structural and musical aspects of the entire movement revolves around the repetition, fragmentation and recombination of these dances (there is one point towards the end where Mahler actually fused all three dances into one) establishes itself as a signficant position as a "Dance movement" among the eleven symphonies.
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	Amazon.com: Mahler: Symphony No. 9: Music: Leonard Bernstein,Gustav Mahler,New York Philharmonic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Kindertotenlieder ~ Leonard Bernstein
		Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Lieder ~ Leonard Bernstein
		Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Adagio from Symphony No. 10 ~ Leonard Bernstein
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	Mahler: Symphony No. 9
		The grandeur and scope of his nine symphonies are a testament to late-Romantic style.
		Gustav Mahler's output is, arguably, a magnificent legacy to symphonic form.
		Mahler's evocation of death is offered to the listener in a most dignified manner.
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	INKPOT#83/I CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: Requiem Cycle - MAHLER Symphony No.9. Berlin PO/Bernstein (DG)
		Mahler's Ninth Symphony is one of those works where the depth of emotions is so fully integrated into the musical structure that the result is, without doubt, a monument of creation.
		Mahler himself stated that in this symphony, something which had been on the tip on his tongue for a long time was being said.
		As Mahler did not live to either conduct or even hear it, the task of premiering the work fell to Mahler's favorite student, colleague, friend and indeed its dedicatee, Bruno Walter, in 1912 - a year after the death of its composer.
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	TIME.com: Mahler Revisited -- Jan. 11, 1960 -- Page 1
		When Gustav Mahler stepped down from the podium one evening in 1895 after conducting the first full performance of his Second Symphony, the Berlin audience was hostile, and the critics fumed about "the cynical impudence of this brutal music maker." The response was characteristic of most Mahler premières.
		To Mahler, the symphony was the ideal musical form; he composed no chamber music, no music for solo instruments, no small-scaled choral pieces; even his famous song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde, calls for a full orchestra.
		Symphony No. 8, dubbed "the Symphony of a Thousand" by one impresario, calls not only for an orchestra beefed up with a special brass choir, but for two mixed choruses, a boys' chorus and eight solo voices.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,894647,00.html (750 words)

	Notes on Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral" (Ludwig van Beethoven) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The finale, of course, is the symphony's most striking movement; its most obvious feature is its deployment of imposing choral forces that have occupied the stage in silence through the first three movements.
		Berlioz felt compelled to conceive of the symphony as a sort of stylized autobiography, creating myths of himself explicitly in the Symphonie Fantastique and Lelio, implicitly in the symphony/concerto Harold in Italy, and even the dramatic symphony Romeo and Juliet.
		For both of them, as for Mahler, who also included choruses in his symphonies, the sheer size of the Ninth symphony was liberating, allowing them to conceive their works on an ever-broader scale.
	www.loudounsymphony.org /notes/beethoven-9 (1776 words)

	Oehmsclassics: Kuhn, Gustav - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9
		No wonder then, that the Ninth, far from moving on from the calm acceptance of Das Lied von der Erde’s Abschied, sees Mahler in a more desperate state than ever before.
		Mahler’s Ninth is both a summation of late-Romanticism and an adumbration of the end of tonality.
		The Rondo Burleske, perhaps the most ‘modern’ of all Mahler’s symphony movements, is at the same time a savage parody of academicism and a mocking gesture of futility, sweeping aside any vain attempt at optimism.
	www.oehmsclassics.de /cd.php?formatid=163&sprache=eng (685 words)

	American Symphony Orchestra League:: Meet the Music.org Form Request
		Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op.
		Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op.
		Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op.
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	SACD Review: San Francisco Symphony (Tilson Thomas) - ‘Mahler: Symphony No.9’
		There is no doubt in my mind that the players of the San Francisco Symphony are among the finest in the world, and they play with astounding sureness.
		Well, Mahler described it as “etwas täppisch und sehr derb” which the glossary of the Dover reprint of the original 1912 Universal-Edition publication of the score translates as “somewhat clumsy and very coarse”.
		No other recordings come anywhere close to this level of technical accomplishment, but neither performance captures the frisson of the truly great performances.
	www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=18422124 (1824 words)

	Mahler: Symphony No. 9
		Death-obsessed and superstitious, Mahler tried to outwit Fate by composing an unnumbered "song symphony" after the Eighth, but when he wrote the Ninth in 1907, he had been crushed by several devastating blows and knew he was fatally ill. It remained his last completed symphony, and was not premiered during his lifetime.
		The symphony is a heart-breaking mixture of holding on and letting go, of joy and beauty remembered and distorted by the anguish of loss, of doomed hope, protest, defiance, and resignation.
		The performance is historically significant: two months later, Hitler invaded Austria and Walter, Mahler's foremost champion, as well as concertmaster Arnold Rosé, who plays the violin solos, and many other orchestra members, had to flee for their lives.
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	MAHLER Symphony No. 9 in D Des Knaben Wunderhorn Haitink [TD,SF]: CD Reviews- May 01 MusicWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There is no part of this immense statement of Mahler's state of mind at that time in his life when Haitink doesn't have something important to say about it.
		He certainly has the finer orchestra and it should go without saying that hearing one of the greatest Mahler ensembles playing this music at the height of their own powers is an experience in itself.
		Only the ridiculously short break of six seconds between symphony and songs has to be deplored and it is a pity that such a special release fails to give the original recording dates.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/May01/Mahler9.htm (1954 words)

	Amazon.com: Mahler: Symphony No. 9: Music: Claudio Abbado,Gustav Mahler,Berliner Philharmoniker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yes, the emotional energy's there--this isn't another Boulez-ian xray, but all of the wonderful Mahler "moments", the grand upsweeps of strings, the churning brass commentary, the piping wind cat-calls and responses...all of those hallmarks which conductors from Barbirolli and Bernstein to Karajan touch base with in recognizable fashion...Abbado simply turns on their head.
		Mahler's 9th is a crucial work on the history of music.
		Mahler's 9th is both a farewell to this world, as well as a celebration of the human spirit.
	www.amazon.com /Mahler-Symphony-No-Claudio-Abbado/dp/B000063WRS (1670 words)

	SF Symphony Secure Online Shopping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In addition, the Symphony cycle will be completed with a recording of Symphony No. 8 during the 2008-09 season.
		Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, among the most spectacular of all first symphonies, shows the young composer writing at full power in a work that opens with forest murmurs and ends in blazing triumph.
		Mahler had the extraordinary capacity to express extremes of emotion in his music, but the Fourth is unique among his symphonies for concentrating almost exclusively on the sunny side of the spectrum.
	www.shopsfsymphony.org /generic.jsp?id=MAHLER_PROJECT_OVERVIEW (525 words)

	classical music - andante - mahler: symphony no. 9 in d
		The last of three live recordings of Mahler from Claudio Abbado, this further reinforces his credentials as a rigorously objective Mahlerian in the lineage of Hermann Scherchen and, from our own time, Michael Gielen.
		Abbado's live Vienna version was marred by an air of detachment in the outer movements, and a recording which tended to flatten out dynamic contrast and conveyed little sense of acoustic space.
		The Andante commodo, Mahler's most audacious synthesis of sonata and rondo forms, is powerfully conceived — with only an over-intrusive ritardando at 16'51" in the main climax to undermine the inevitability of the whole.
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	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		These thoughts came to mind in listening to Michael Tilson Thomas' Mahler Ninth, because it also is a performance of great emotional extremes, one that wrings every drop of expression from the music--and takes its time in doing so.
		You may be familiar with the false dichotomy often seen in descriptions of Mahler performances, opposing "self-indulgent" interpretations to "symphonic" ones.
		The reason this dichotomy is false is simple: Mahler's symphonies depend for their structural as well as expressive success on the conductor's willingness to indulge the extremes of tempo, dynamics, timbre, and texture that they embody, and the only real question (pace Mr.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=8925 (794 words)

	Mahler Symphony No.9 on Record
		Having managed to cheat fate, as it were, by calling his Ninth symphony a song cycle, Mahler returned to purely orchestral writing.
		Again, as Mahler did not live to conduct this work, the premiere was given by Bruno Walter, in Vienna on June 26, 1912.
		I know the New York Philharm,onic have a Mahler tradition, but I think Masur should stick to what he's best at, and judging by this and his equally dull First, Mahler is not it.
	turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca:8080 /Mahler/Symphony9 (1067 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mahler - Symphony No 9: Music: Riccardo Chailly,Gustav Mahler,Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Superbly played and vivid realisation of a work which is not in fact one of my favourite Mahler symphonies - but if any recording could convert a listener it is this.
		This is the best recording and perfomance of Mahler's 9th that I have ever heard.
		I have been listening to this symphony for nearly 50 years and this is the best performance and recording ever.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Mahler-Symphony-No-Riccardo-Chailly/dp/B0002U9G7Q (632 words)

	Recordings - Telarc - Mahler's 9th Symphony
		A tireless and passionate advocate for bringing classical music to the general public, he has not only devoted much of his career to coaching and conducting young musicians, but has also established a reputation as a highly-respected motivational speaker for large international groups and corporations.
		Using music as metaphor for positive, creative thinking, he regularly brings enthusiastic corporate executives with no musical background to their feet to sing the theme from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
		This live recording of Mahler's Ninth Symphony marks his debut on the Telarc label, and includes a bonus discussion disc offering the conductor's unique observations on the score and its performance, which Zander believes will enable the first-time listener to both understand and become drawn to Mahler's music.
	www.benjaminzander.com /recordings/telarc/mahler9.asp (612 words)

	News and Milestones - Mahler’s Symphony No. 4
		Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, the composer’s most compact symphony, with its time-suspending slow movement and heavenly vocal finale, features soprano Laura Claycomb and the SFS conducted by Tilson Thomas.
		Launched in September 2001, the Mahler recording project includes plans to record all of Mahler’s nine symphonies and the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony for SFS Media.
		In 1974, at the age of 29, Tilson Thomas made his SFS debut conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 9.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/news_samp.asp?nodeid=3098&callid=16 (613 words)

	Beethoven Symphony No.9 on Record
		Gladstone of music" whereas Joseph Stalin, after a performance of the finale at a Soviet Congress in Moscow, declared that "this is the right music for the masses, it can't be performed often enough," resulting, according to Heinz Unger, in "a kind of Beethoven epidemic" in the Soviet Union.
		The Ninth is the summit of Beethoven's symphonic output, the work which brought the voice into the symphony, thus paving the way for Mahler's great choral works, and the symphony which provided the formal structural pattern for practically every single Bruckner symphony.
		According to Sir Donald Tovey, Beethoven changed a word of Schiller's Ode: in the manuscript of the 9th symphony, but in none of the printed editions, the end of the first stanza read "Was die mode frech (not streng) geteilt" (Which custom has impudently, rather than sternly, parted).
	turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca:8080 /Beethoven/Symphony9 (1604 words)

	Guardian \| Mahler: Symphony No 9
		Mahler's symphonies fall naturally into three groups, each with its own clutch of preoccupations.
		Death pervades every bar of these late works, but where in Das Lied von der Erde it is poeticised, turned into the most exquisite and poignant acceptance of the inevitable, in the Ninth Symphony there are no consolations.
		It shows Mahler poised on the edge of two musical worlds - on the one hand there is the whole 19th-century romantic tradition, on the other there is the vast uncharted space of modernism.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3916627-103408,00.html (332 words)

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