Mahler and Sorey

Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is a sonic banquet, five spectacularly different movements that come together in an overwhelmingly brilliant whole. When rehearsing for the premiere, Mahler called the work “primeval, this foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound.” The program opens with a new work by acclaimed Philadelphia-based composer Tyshawn Sorey, written for Aaron Diehl, a pianist of “melodic precision, harmonic erudition and elegant restraint” (The Ne...