7.30 p.m. RHF
Nézet-Séguin conducts the LPO in Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto (with Nicholas Angelich) and Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.9
In 1907, ill and exhausted, Mahler faced spiritual and physical annihilation. He countered it by throwing himself into life with renewed passion. Nevertheless, his last completed symphony, the Ninth, would be a desperate farewell. In the words of his biographer Deryck Cooke, it represented 'a 'naked encounter with the arch-enemy himself, who invades the music, turning everything to dust and ashes'. That arch-enemy was death. Four movements, a new orchestral language and an emboldened emotional extremism: the ultimate Mahler symphony.
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Angelich, piano
Yannick c, conductor
Nézet-Séguin conducts the LPO in Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto (with Nicholas Angelich) and Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.9
In 1907, ill and exhausted, Mahler faced spiritual and physical annihilation. He countered it by throwing himself into life with renewed passion. Nevertheless, his last completed symphony, the Ninth, would be a desperate farewell. In the words of his biographer Deryck Cooke, it represented 'a 'naked encounter with the arch-enemy himself, who invades the music, turning everything to dust and ashes'. That arch-enemy was death. Four movements, a new orchestral language and an emboldened emotional extremism: the ultimate Mahler symphony.
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Angelich, piano
Yannick c, conductor
time flies !
Am listening to the andante of Mahler 9 at the moment and it seems disjointed. 
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