“Mahler, Symphony No. 9 – Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival”

With the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Abbado conducts Mahler’s unfinished Ninth Symphony. This interpretation rises like the most beautiful prayer. After the last notes have vanished as in a dream, time seems to stand still and reality is held at bay: A long moment goes by before applause comes to trouble this moment of grace offered by a conductor transfigured by the impact of the piece.