Mahler, Gustav - Symphony No.9 - Salonen, Esa-Pekka
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
"In the two massive slow outer movements, he doesn't wring out the final drops of emotion, but empathises with the love of life and the beauties of nature that paradoxically emerge from Mahler's premonition of death. "
The Sunday Times
"His Boulezian ear for balance keeps all the textures phantasmagorically clear in the first and third movements ... the final dying embers are a dream."
BBC Music Magazine, August 2010
"... its radical and forward-looking qualities emerge with the clarity and vision of a conductor ... whose expertise in contemporary music elucidates texture and orchestral detail"
International Record Review, July/August 2010