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The Mahler's Ninth goes on stage this week at the Auditorium. Directs the Yankees John Axelrod, had seen and heard in these parts several times (and always with a high rating). A few weeks ago he directed this true testament Mahler 's and RAI National Orchestra - at least listening to radio - I had made a good impression (apart from an early attack of a joke given the piccolo in the tail end ... )

Before the concert, the usual Conference presentation of Mahler symphonies, assigned yesterday to the venerable Quirino Principe. Listening to what one can not be admired by so much wisdom ...

A curiosity: perhaps HL de La Grange exaggerates a little, but today we have the Ninth , is due to refusal Mahler opposed to an attractive offer of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires , who invited him there for the winter season (15 May to 15 August 1908). Mahler chose instead to spend the summer in Toblach and there, in his Häuschen , while composing the Lied , buttò giù i primi schizzi della sua ultima (completata) sinfonia.

 

Ascoltare questo capolavoro è sempre un'impresa, per cervello e cuore, credo altrettanto dura quanto quella di eseguirla e di dirigerla. Per questo non è consigliabile eccedere: personalmente avevo ascoltato per l'ultima volta la Nona quasi un anno fa (8 marzo 2010, alla Scala, con Salonen ) e ancora ne avevo lo straordinario ricordo . Perché davvero, cuore e cervello ne escono ripagati con gli interessi!

 

Spesso si considera questa sinfonia come opera di un individuo destroyed and dying, who writes his own epitaph. The way things are a little different: yes Mahler was reached in 1907 by three blows of fate (diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction and death of small Putzi and dereliction of Hofoper ) as set out in advance - but only imagination of a-posteriori Alma - in the final of the Sixth , and certainly was aware that the end could now knock on his door at any time, but was not a despondent man, was indeed an artist who kept in good working order and full activity. If anything, his Ninth - As well as Lied and fragments of the Tenth - show us his deep conviction that, even amid the ruins left by these earthquakes, there was still the prospect of a new life , although to be lived in awareness of its precariousness.

Mahler seems to me that the post-1907 is an artist who, point blank, he discovers within himself all existential problems (and materials) which until then had felt - and admirably represented in music - only outside of his own person. And it is his own artistic production a chiarircelo: l' Ottava sinfonia (1906) chiude il ciclo della produzione del Mahler testimone del mondo ; da lì in avanti, la sua musica sarà quella del testimone di se stesso , naturalmente in rapporto al mondo e all'aldilà.

 

E John Axelrod , come ce l'ha proposta, questa testimonianza? Con grande energia, direi, accentuando i contrasti di tempo, sia quelli macro (fra i movimenti esterni e interni) che quelli micro (all'interno dei singoli movimenti, paradigmatico il Rondò ). Forse qualche eccesso negli schianti dei timpani, per the rest decent performance technically, not free of small flaws, perhaps partly due to the unusual layout of the bass (between front lined percussion and brass). Flaws certainly eliminated in the next few replies, and that still did not influence the opinion of the public who has bestowed - after the long silence following the dying of the arches - a great triumph for the director and teachers.

The next event is here with the great Lenny .
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