Iván Fischer conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony

Mahler’s Seventh Symphony and songs by Widmann

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Iván Fischer conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony; Michael Nagy will be singing songs by Jörg Widmann, a Mahler of our time.
Mahler sets off a grand firework display with the full forces of the brass and percussion.

Concert programme

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  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 7

  • Jörg Widmann

    Das heisse Herz: delen 1. 4. 6. 7 en 8 (selectie Fischer)

Performers

About this concert

Under the baton of honorary guest conductor Iván Fischer, the Concertgebouw Orchestra will be performing Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Follow the composer as he goes through a process of purification and catharsis. The development of the ‘hero’ begins in the Seventh Symphony with a fluctuation between contrasting emotions and, after mysterious nocturnal visions in the central movements, erupts into triumphant victory in the Finale. At the very end Mahler sets off a grand firework display with the full forces of the brass and percussion.

In 1909 Mahler conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Dutch premiere of his Seventh. The fickle symphony confused the press and public alike, but gradually Mahler’s Seventh Symphony gew into an audience favourite. Iván Fischer will open the concert with music by Jörg Widmann, like Mahler a composer in the great symphonic tradition. And just like Mahler, for his song cycle Das heisse Herz Widmann used as source material the collection of folk poems Das Knaben Wunderhorn. These wonderful songs are right up baritone Michael Nagy’s alley.

Dates and tickets

About this concert

Under the baton of honorary guest conductor Iván Fischer, the Concertgebouw Orchestra will be performing Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Follow the composer as he goes through a process of purification and catharsis. The development of the ‘hero’ begins in the Seventh Symphony with a fluctuation between contrasting emotions and, after mysterious nocturnal visions in the central movements, erupts into triumphant victory in the Finale. At the very end Mahler sets off a grand firework display with the full forces of the brass and percussion.

In 1909 Mahler conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Dutch premiere of his Seventh. The fickle symphony confused the press and public alike, but gradually Mahler’s Seventh Symphony gew into an audience favourite. Iván Fischer will open the concert with music by Jörg Widmann, like Mahler a composer in the great symphonic tradition. And just like Mahler, for his song cycle Das heisse Herz Widmann used as source material the collection of folk poems Das Knaben Wunderhorn. These wonderful songs are right up baritone Michael Nagy’s alley.

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