I had the wonderful experience of hearing the BBC Philharmonic perform Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at the Bridgewater Hall on Saturday, 12th April. Goodness gracious, what a piece: stuttering into life with an uncanny heartbeat motif; blazing a path through lively dances; burning with resistance against the omnipresence of death; and finally facing its own finitude—finding,Continue reading “(Momentarily) quieting the endless deferrals – closure vs an infinite horizon in Mahler 9”
James Waide 