Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler 9

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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..What are we but mere mortals? This notion plagued Gustav Mahler throughout much of his adult life. As he grappled with the «Curse of the Ninth» – a superstition that no Romantic composer outlived their ninth symphony – he was also dealing with the diagnosis of a terminal heart condition and grieving the death of his young daughter. Yet under this fatalistic shadow, Mahler’s thirst for life grew. Symphony N˚ 9 is a life-affirming farewell to all that Mahler loved about the natural world and the human spirit.