Mahler: Symphony No 9 – review

Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman (RCA, 2CDs)David Zinman's Mahler cycle has been among the most significant recording achievements of the last few years, if not without its controversies. Zinman's insistence that Mahler be re-evaluated in non-neurotic terms has not appealed to those who who view his music primarily as psychodramatic. Yet the dividends have also been enormous, rarely more so than in this beautiful, austere recording of the Ninth Symphony. The performance is superbly controlled an...

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