Celebrating one of the most exciting musical partnerships in classical music, Grammy-winners Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic release their recording of Mahler's Ninth Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon February 19, 2013. While the partnership has resulted in recordings available exclusively in the digital format, this new release marks the first to be offered as both a physical and digital recording. The album was recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall during the 2012 Mahler Project.
Gustavo Dudamel, who was just named Musical America's 2013 "Musician of the Year," recently completed The Mahler Project performing all nine of Mahler's symphonies plus the fragmentary Tenth with two orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, in Los Angeles and again in Caracas. It was an epic, ambitious project, with magnificent results - including the newest recording to be released by the LA Phil and Dudamel: Mahler's magisterial Ninth Symphony.
Dudamel and the LA Phil toured Europe in 2011 performing Mahler's Ninth Symphony and garnering widespread critical acclaim. The Ninth Symphony was completed in 1909; Mahler died in May 1911, without ever hearing it performed.
"I waited a long time to conduct this symphony," says Dudamel. "It embodies all the deep, personal dualities at the heart of Mahler's music: life and death, love and fear, hope and despair. It is a very special kind of music - breathtaking . . . perfect."
