Proms 5 & 6: LSO; BBC Singers

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn the first of Monday's two Proms, Bernard Haitink led the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Ninth Symphony. It is often viewed as one of the composer's "farewells" to life, stricken as he was with heart disease, marital and career problems and the loss of his four-year-old daughter. Yet, as with all Mahler's works, the level of ambiguity is so high that its undeniably valedictory gestures are leavened with both relish for life's beauty and consciousness of its ugli...

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