Name: Song of the Earth
Start: 2024-06-14T19:00:00
Location: Alte Oper

Clay Hilley

Samuel Hasselhorn

Alain Altinoglu

hr-Sinfonieorchester

"The Song of the Earth" - as simple as this title is, there is so much hidden behind this late work by Mahler, which is half song cycle and half symphony. It is one of the best he has written: the music is hyper-sensual, the lyrics extremely atmospheric. A great song as if from another world. Based on adaptations of ancient Chinese poetry, Mahler has composed an all-encompassing swan song, a farewell to the earth, to life, which Alain Altinoglu and the hr Symphony Orchestra have realized with two excellent soloists. And what happens beyond? "Metacosmos" is the title Anna Þorvaldsdóttir gave her symphonic poem in 2017, and it is precisely about the dark journey that goes beyond every horizon. "The title refers to the idea of ​​falling into a black hole and arriving at a place that no one knows and over which you have no control," says the Icelandic composer. She has succeeded in creating music with an almost Mahlerian atmosphere, sometimes dark and amorphous, sometimes of unreal Nordic beauty.