Staatskapelle Berlin

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Seating Chart)
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 2 PM

Program

Program Notes

Meet the Artists

“an impressive, highly responsive ensemble”—Sun-Sentinel

New love, personal turmoil, and illness all find expression in Mahler’s stormy and triumphant Fifth Symphony—his first symphonic music to dispense with melodies from his youthful Wunderhorn songs. Maestro Barenboim is joined by Grammy Award– winning bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff for the composer’s Rückert Lieder—settings of poems by one of Austria’s greatest writers, Friedrich Rückert.

Program Details

Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, Music Director and Conductor
Thomas Quasthoff, Bass-Baritone

MAHLER	Rückert Lieder ·· Liebst du um Schönheit ·· Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder ·· Ich atmet' einen linden Duft ·· Um Mitternacht ·· Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
MAHLER	Symphony No. 5
Perspectives:	Daniel Barenboim

Mahler: The Symphonies in Sequence

Gustav Mahler once famously declared, “the symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.” In this introduction to Mahler’s symphonies, trace his lifelong creative path from the exuberant Romanticism of his First Symphony to the haunted music of his last.

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