Solti's First Recording Of Mahler's Ninth! Issued To Commemorate The 20th Anniversary Of Solti's Passing! After the Fourth in 1961, the First in 1964 and the Second in 1966, the Ninth was the fourth of Mahler's symphonies to be recorded for Decca by Sir Georg Solti. Symphonies 1, 2 and 9, and No. 3 from 1968, were all made with the London Symphony Orchestra, but the cycle quickly expanded its horizons to become a portmanteau affair reflecting Solti's status as a fiery interpreter, in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. Solti revisited the whole Mahler symphony cycle with the Chicago Symphony after he became its music director in 1969. [...more...]
... There is only the majesty of death," said Otto Klemperer of the closing Adagio of Mahler's 9th Symphony, a work he had first conducted in Berlin in 1925. More than 50 years later, and soon after the sessions for this recording, his mighty interpretation of [...]
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