Video: Brett Mitchell explores Mahler 9 with the Colorado Symphony

Brett Mitchell and a virtual ensemble of Colorado Symphony musicians explore Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

DENVER — The Colorado Symphony and Music Director Brett Mitchell have released a new video exploring Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony.

Mr. Mitchell and the orchestra were to have performed the work in May 2020, but those performances were canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Instead, Mr. Mitchell explores the work from the piano at home, and is joined virtually by members of the Colorado Symphony for demonstrations of three orchestral excerpts from Mahler’s final masterpiece.

Mr. Mitchell is also joined by his wife, soprano Angela Mitchell, for demonstrations from Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and the hymn Abide With Me.

The video originally premiered on Wednesday, September 9 on both YouTube and Facebook, and may now be viewed on both platforms on demand.

Gustav Mahler (1909)