The distinctive sound of The Hallé orchestra is now reaching out well beyond its familiar English repertoire on disc. There are times in this live performance of Mahler’s Symphony No 9 when one might wish that Mark Elder had taken more risks or for Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall to yield a brighter, more analytical sound, but the music-making increasingly gets under one’s skin—the subtle palette of greys and silvers, the unforced eloquence, the sense of a poetic elegy raised aloft in music. Here is Mahler performed with uncommon beauty and melancholy.