Name: Special chamber concert
Start: 2024-10-06T11:00:00
Location: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Kent Nagano

Julian Prégardien

Fleur Barron

Bogdan Plish

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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.