Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No.9, lauded by many as “unquestionably the first Classical masterpiece,” at age 21. Das Lied von der Erde is a colossal tome by Gustav Mahler based on seven translated poems from Hans Bethge’s Die chinesische Flöte. In this song-symphony, Mahler ponders such profound subjects as eternity, death and rebirth. Channelled through magnificent Tang poetry, his soul takes flight beyond mortality into everlasting Nature.