'My time has not yet come', said Mahler. His haunting Ninth Symphony marks the end of the Hallé's contribution to this revelatory traversal through the work of an extraordinary composer, proving perhaps that his time has not only come but has endured. Karajan described Symphony No.9 as 'music from another world, coming as if from eternity' and in what is often seen as a farewell to the world, the composer quoted from his Kindertotenlieder - The day is fine on yonder heights'. Expect poignant intensity from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé in the autumnal, lit-from-within-glow of Mahler's late orchestral colouring. Luke Bedford is one of today's leading young composers. His previous Hallé premiere, the distinctive and expressive Rode with Darkness, won the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award (British Composers' Awards).

6.30pm Pre-concert Event Michael Kennedy joins fellow writer and critic Michael Henderson and John Summers to reflect on Manchester’s response to Mahler.

The BBC Philharmonic and Hallé concerts will be recorded for BBC Radio 3. The concerts will be broadcast from 5 April on consecutive Mondays at 7.00pm for 10 weeks.