This coming Thursday, at Milan's Auditorium Verdi, Wayne Marshall will conduct Beethoven's Ninth (it's his first time with the Ninth) in the classic December 31 concert @ Auditorium di Milano. Maestro Marshall (above, in English) talks about the Ninth. La Verdi's Maestro del Coro, Erina Gambarini, discusses the work, in Italian, after the jump.