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In the organizer's words:

Gustav Mahler and his work play an important role in the great tradition of the Gürzenich Orchestra. He himself conducted the orchestra several times, and two of his symphonies were premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra. Since then, he has been a mainstay of the orchestra's repertoire, whose unmistakable sound has had a decisive influence on Mahler's compositions - much like the symphonies of Johannes Brahms.

Fate knocks at the door. Not quietly, but with the brutal sounds of a wooden hammer, which makes its grand entrance in the final movement of Mahler's 6th Symphony. Is this powerful work a vision? Does the composer foresee the approaching tragedies of his own life, the death of his daughter, the diagnosis of a serious illness, the forced downturn in his career? Perhaps even the horrors of the First World War? "No work has flowed so directly from his heart. The Sixth is his most personal work and a prophetic one at that," says Alma Mahler, the artist's wife of two years. The symphony is monumental in every respect: a good 80 minutes of playing time, a huge orchestra, a range of emotions from almost orgiastic jubilation to abysmal depression, ethereal and out of this world, then again of noisy brutality. Mahler, more versatile than in perhaps any of his other works, enigmatic and full of surprises like life itself.

Program

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
1903-04

Cast

Andrés Orozco-Estrada Conductor

Price information:

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