The Vienna Philharmonic interprets Mahler's Symphony No. 9 — With Franz Welser-Möst

Settle in for another exceptional evening at the symphony with the gold-standard Vienna Philharmonic, led by renowned conductor Franz Welser-Möst at the Vienna Musikverein! The program is given over to a single piece—and one that merits a solo billing… One of the most monumental works ever composed, Gustav Mahler's Ninth (and final completed) Symphony is a work of passion, substance, and vision, prefiguring the music of Schoenberg and other 20th-century luminaries. The symphony begins and ends with arrestingly intense slow movements around two faster movements, including a disorienting second movement that deconstructs a series of dances—called a "dance of death" by theorist and philosopher Theodor Adorno.

Photo: Franz Welser-Möst © Julia Wesely