Iván Fischer conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
In Berlin and Grafenegg
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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Jörg Widmann
Das heisse Herz
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7
Performers
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Iván Fischer
honorary guest conductor
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Michael Nagy
baritone
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.