International Classical Music Awards
2023
Nominated - Symphonic Music

Gramophone Magazine
December 2022
Editor's Choice

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

For the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the performances on November 26 and 27, 2021 in the Isarphilharmonie marked the beginning of a new chapter in its Mahler interpretation: with its designated new principal conductor Simon Rattle, the orchestra is now headed by a Mahler admirer every bit as ardent as his predecessors Jansons, Maazel and Kubelík. The musicians dedicated the benefit concert on November 26 to the memory of conductor Bernard Haitink, who died in October 2021 and was associated with the renowned orchestra for 61 years. The very long silence after the final chord was one of those “goosebump moments” that one goes to concerts for – and for which music is made in the first place.

"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 in his approach, an interpretive longersightedness, in which Mahler’s huge movements are unfolded as wholes rather than as sequences of apocalyptic moments." - BBC Music Magazine, December 2022.