Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments

Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker

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The Mahler Academy Orchestra’s original project – Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments – sheds a completely new light on the performance practice of Mahler’s time. It is Exclusively Available in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 and DXD at NativeDSD

For this unique project, the young artists of the Gustav Mahler Academy came together with fifty-five musicians from Europe’s top orchestras under the direction of Philipp von Steinaecker in Toblach, where Mahler composed his last works.

Their performance on historical instruments reveal many new aspects of this music. To make the project possible, the Euregio Kulturzentrum Gustav Mahler Toblach Foundation has assembled a collection that meticulously reconstructs the instruments used by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra around 1900.

When the Ninth Symphony was premiered in 1912, a year after Mahler’s death, the music world wanted to consider it as his testament and farewell to life. The opening movement of the Ninth Symphony, like that of the Fourth, describes the human condition — although the philosophical generalizing tone of the Fourth has given way to an incredibly personal and biographically pointed narrative.

Mahler creates a wistful mood of great beauty from seemingly incoherent scraps of motifs for the beginning: the memory of a past before the catastrophe. In the long progression of the movement, however, this place of retreat for the soul is repeatedly overtaken by horrific reality; despite courageous struggles, it is overcome and perishes in devastating ruin.

Mahler Academy Orchestra 
Philipp von Steinaecker, Conductor

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1.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 1 Andante comodo
05:46
2.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 2 Etwas frischer
02:27
3.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 3 Plötzlich sehr mäßig und zuruckhaltend
02:55
4.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 4 Mit Wut. Allegro risoluto
04:15
5.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 5 Schattenhaft
02:03
6.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 6 Bewegter
03:08
7.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 7 Wie von Anfang
01:57
8.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: I. Andante comodo: No. 8 Plötzlich bedeutend langsamer und leise
06:00
9.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: II. Ländler: No. 1 Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch u
02:38
10.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: II. Ländler: No. 2 Pocco piu mosso subito
02:16
11.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: II. Ländler: No. 3 Tempo III. Ländler ganz langsam
01:39
12.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: II. Ländler: No. 4 A tempo II
02:49
13.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: II. Ländler: No. 5 Tempo I. Wie zu Anfang
01:29
14.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: II. Ländler: No. 6 Tempo II
01:28
15.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: II. Ländler: No. 7 Tempo I. Subito
03:09
16.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: III. Rondo Burleske: No. 1 Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
01:51
17.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: III. Rondo Burleske: No. 2 L’istesso tempo (I)
01:14
18.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: III. Rondo Burleske: No. 3 Sempre l’istesso tempo
01:23
19.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: III. Rondo Burleske: No. 4 L’istesso tempo (2)
01:39
20.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: III. Rondo Burleske: No. 5 Etwas gehalten
02:49
21.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: III. Rondo Burleske: No. 6 [Clarinets]
01:56
22.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: III. Rondo Burleske: No. 7 Tempo I. Subito
02:38
23.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 1 Sehr langsam und noch zuruckhaltend
04:03
24.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 2 Plötzlich wieder langsam (wie zu Anfang) und etwas zöge
02:07
25.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 3 Molto adagio subito
03:29
26.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 4 A tempo. Molto adagio
02:13
27.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 5 Stets sehr gehalten
01:42
28.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 6 Fliessender doch durchaus nicht eilend
01:35
29.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 7 Tempo I. Molto adagio
05:10
30.
Symphony No. 9 in D Major: IV. Adagio: No. 8 Adagissimo
04:08

Total time: 01:21:56

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Release DateJuly 19, 2024

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As part of his “Mahler Originalklang” project, supported by the Mahler Academy in Bolzano, which he curates, conductor Philipp von Steinaecker had the excellent idea of ​​playing Mahler’s 9th on Period Instruments.

An unusual gentleness for a symphony that has often been considered a little too quickly as a testamentary work. It was created in 1912, a year after Mahler’s death. Which puts all the more into perspective all the revolts and renunciations that Mahler distils in it.

Disconcerting, but captivating

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