Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Mahler Symphony No. 9

Christoph Eschenbach conductor
Christopher Maltman baritone

Here is a beginning and an ending: Mahler’s first mature song-cycle and his last completed symphony, and a telling view of his obsession with death. The young composer of the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen creates music in which the love of life and nature combats despair and grief. In the Ninth Symphony Mahler experiences, for his biographer Deryck Cooke, a ‘naked encounter with the arch-enemy himself, who invades the music, turning everything to dust and ashes.’