Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra [Blu-ray] by Accentus

Description

Claudio Abbado and his hand-picked players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra take their acclaimed Mahler cycle to a new level with this performance of the most complex and compelling of the symphonies, the intense, searching Ninth. Abbado brings all his renowned clarity of vision and the experience of a lifetime to this contradictory music half valedictory, half life-affirming and his 'orchestra of soloists', including some of the leading instrumentalists of our time, revels in the transparent textures and virtuosity of Mahler's last completed symphony. 'A rendition … of astonishing depth and subtlety' (Daily Telegraph).