Staatskapelle Berlin

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Seating Chart)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8 PM

This concert is part of the Europe's Great Orchestras series.

Program

Program Notes

Meet the Artists

“renowned for its rich, ‘creamy’ sound”—Guardian

“My Sixth is finished. I think I have proved myself,” Mahler wrote to conductor (and former student) Bruno Walter in summer 1904. Though created during a time of great happiness for the composer, the work emerged as one of the most profoundly dark of all his symphonies. Mahler later superstitiously removed one of the three “hammer blows of Fate” that punctuate the final titanic movement, fearful they would be prophetic to his own life.

Program Details

Staatskapelle Berlin
Pierre Boulez, Conductor

MAHLER	Symphony No. 6, "Tragic"
Perspectives: Daniel Barenboim
Program is approximately 1 hour, 20 minutes, and will be performed without intermission.

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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