Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Haydn / MahlerJames Gaffigan (conductor)
This event is in the past.
“My 5th symphony is a cursed work. Nobody understood it.” Mahler didn’t live to see the initial lack of understanding become admiration of the innovative composition.
This event is in the past.
“My 5th symphony is a cursed work. Nobody understood it.” Mahler didn’t live to see the initial lack of understanding become admiration of the innovative composition.
- Ramón Ortega Quero, oboe
- Mor Biron, bassoon
- Radoslaw Szulc, violin
- Giorgi Kharadze, cello
- James Gaffigan (replaces Zubin Mehta), conductor
As is often the case in Mahler’s work, this symphony interweaves a yearning for death with affirmation of life, world-weariness with a sense of fulfilment, suffering with passion. It opens with a funeral march, there’s a barn dance in the middle, followed by a musical declaration of love, and it builds to a climactic ending. Zubin Mehta prefaces Mahler’s groundbreaking soundscape with Haydn’s Sinfonia concertante – a work that was also ahead of its time. By focusing on four solo voices (oboe, bassoon, violin and cello) out of the orchestra as a whole, Haydn’s work varies between an instrumental concerto and a symphony – a challenge relished by the soloists from within the orchestra.
Programme
- Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante B-flat major Hob. I:105
- Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No 5 in C-sharp minor
Introduction at 5:45 PM, free admission with a valid concert ticket
