Gustav Mahler's development and work as a composer focused primarily on two musical genres: symphony and song. Time and again, the two very different forms came closer together, but the connection between the monumentality of the symphony and the intimacy of the song reached a hymnic climax in "Das Lied von der Erde". A compositional legacy based on texts by Hans Bethge that Mahler left to the world, knowing full well that his own death was already waiting for him around the next corner. For the concerts of the "Association for Private Musical Performances", Arnold Schönberg arranged Mahler's final song for a chamber orchestra, a work that was finally completed by Rainer Riehn. The arrangement for chamber orchestra made Mahler's composition a masterpiece of its own kind, in which the essence of the original sound is preserved through careful reduction and transforms into a new quality of characteristics and emotional experience.

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Special chamber concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

The 6th Philharmonic Concert will feature a world premiere reflecting our times. Jörg Widmann, who has been in close artistic contact with Kent Nagano, especially since the great success of his ARCHE for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, recently wrote a decidedly peace-loving work in view of the global wars: "Cantata in tempore belli". Jens Harzer takes on the role of the speaker. Ida Aldrian sings the alto part.

Bogdan Plish

Events

Upcoming events

2 - 3 Feb, 2025

6th Philharmonic Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Past events

Oct 6, 2024

Special chamber concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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