Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony
The Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Mahler’s great vision in Bucharest
Don’t miss the chance to experience Mahler’s monumental Third Symphony during the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. Klaus Mäkelä will conduct the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Laurens Symphony Chorus, the National Children’s Choir, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston.
For fans of symphonic music with vocals, this performance of Mahler’s big, friendly giant is a golden opportunity.
Concert programme
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George Enescu
Concertouverture in A gr.t., op. 32
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3
Performers
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Klaus Mäkelä
chief conductor designate
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Jennifer Johnston
alto
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Romanian Radio Academic Choir (Ladies)
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Romanian Radio Children's Choir
About this concert
The concert will open with George Enescu’s Concert Overture in A major, Op. 32. Then Klaus Mäkelä will lead the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler’s all-encompassing Third Symphony. The brilliant Romanian Radio Academic Choir, the Romanian Radio Children's Choir, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston will join soloists from the orchestra. Because of the work’s substantial orchestration and proportions, performances of Mahler’s ‘big, friendly giant’ are rare. In fact, the Concertgebouw Orchestra will be playing the work for the first time in over eight years. This will be Klaus Mäkelä’s second Mahler symphony with the orchestra, following his acclaimed Sixth in the summer of 2022. This performance represents a fabulous opportunity for lovers of vocal symphonic music.
When Gustav Mahler wrote his Third Symphony, his chosen subject was ‘the creation of the entire world.’ The symphony deals successively with primal forces, flora, fauna, human beings, angels, and love. It lasts almost two hours and has six movements, making it Mahler’s longest symphony. Yet initially, Mahler had hoped to give the piece a seventh movement, based on a song, Das himmlische Leben, from a set of German folk poems known as Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn). But instead, Mahler decided to use the song as the cornerstone for his Fourth Symphony.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
The concert will open with George Enescu’s Concert Overture in A major, Op. 32. Then Klaus Mäkelä will lead the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler’s all-encompassing Third Symphony. The brilliant Romanian Radio Academic Choir, the Romanian Radio Children's Choir, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston will join soloists from the orchestra. Because of the work’s substantial orchestration and proportions, performances of Mahler’s ‘big, friendly giant’ are rare. In fact, the Concertgebouw Orchestra will be playing the work for the first time in over eight years. This will be Klaus Mäkelä’s second Mahler symphony with the orchestra, following his acclaimed Sixth in the summer of 2022. This performance represents a fabulous opportunity for lovers of vocal symphonic music.
When Gustav Mahler wrote his Third Symphony, his chosen subject was ‘the creation of the entire world.’ The symphony deals successively with primal forces, flora, fauna, human beings, angels, and love. It lasts almost two hours and has six movements, making it Mahler’s longest symphony. Yet initially, Mahler had hoped to give the piece a seventh movement, based on a song, Das himmlische Leben, from a set of German folk poems known as Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn). But instead, Mahler decided to use the song as the cornerstone for his Fourth Symphony.