Philharmonia Orchestra: Maazel: Mahler Cycle 2011

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Maazel: Mahler Cycle 2011

Royal Festival Hall
Tue 12 Apr 2011 7:30pm

Lorin Maazel

conductor

Michelle DeYoung

mezzo-soprano

Mahler

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Mahler

Symphony No. 1

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‘The symphony is a world’ Mahler proclaimed to Sibelius, and few composers have written music that conjures up as vast a range of musical imagery as his First Symphony. From the evocative opening, marked ‘like a sound of nature’, to a funeral march based on Frère Jacques and the sounds of military and folk bands it is a work of enormous power and breadth.

Mahler’s symphonies are intimately connected to his songs and Maestro Maazel has chosen the finest interpreters of Mahler’s vocal music to illuminate this music across the cycle. Tonight we hear Michelle DeYoung perform the cycle Songs of a Wayfarer, the second song of which became the theme of the First Symphony’s opening movement.

A pre-concert talk was scheduled for this evening, but unfortunately this has had to been cancelled.