The LSO's departing principal conductor didn't need to make a speech - his intense rendition of Mahler's valedictory Ninth Symphony said it all
The LSO’s departing principal conductor didn’t need to make a speech – his intense rendition of Mahler’s valedictory Ninth Symphony said it allJessica DuchenLast night the Proms bade farewell to Sir Simon Rattle’s tenure as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
As curtain-raiser, the evening reasserted the BBC Singers’ treasurable presence. The UK’s only full-time professional choir, a century old, it has beenBack in 1945, Francis Poulenc entrusted it with the UK premiere of his, written in Paris two years earlier under the Nazi occupation.
Mahler has always been Rattle’s heartland, showcasing his ability to create faithful and personal interpretations on an epic scale. Nothing could do so better than the Ninth Symphony. It’s a valedictory work at the best of times. A ninth symphony had been the last for Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorák and Bruckner, and Mahler’s own, when it arrived, was perhaps the most personal music that he ever wrote.
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