The Hungarian National Philharmonic dedicate an entire performance to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the last he completed, in 1908-09. It's a complex and mysterious work. The title of the concert, Swansong, is apt. No matter how much he wanted to avoid the fate of Beethoven, history repeated itself, and Mahler could only complete the first movement of the subsequent Tenth. The conductor is 70-year-old János
Kovács, who graduated from Franz Liszt Music Academy in 1973, at home with many styles and
genres.
