The London Symphony Orchestra's current leader, Sir Simon Rattle, brings a program devoted to Gustav Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 9 — the composer's final symphony, and arguably his greatest achievement.

The London Symphony Orchestra is known worldwide for a grand, lush sound that has been popularized in the big screen (including the first six Star Wars films), and repeatedly reached No. 1 on the iTunes classical download charts. Mahler's extravagant masterpiece — which includes waltzes, marches, fanfares, folk tunes and more — has been described as "the last pinnacle of Vienna's orchestral history,"  "an epic novel without words," and "the first masterpiece of Hollywood music before there were movies."