Staatskapelle Berlin
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage ( Seating Chart)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8 PM
Staatskapelle Berlin
“ Barenboim digs deep to express Mahlerian angst.”—London Sunday Times
Mahler wrote his tender Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1883–1885) as a memorial to his love for a young soprano. In complete contrast is his controversial Seventh Symphony of 1904–1905, whose mysterious opening evokes the sound of rowing across a mountain lake near the composer’s house. Yet the symphony concludes with surprisingly bright and boisterous music, which Mahler biographer Henry-Louis de La Grange called “the most insane … and most provocative of all his final movements.”
Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim, Music Director and Conductor
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
MAHLER
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Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
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MAHLER
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Symphony No. 7
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Perspectives: Daniel Barenboim
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Program is approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes, including one intermission.
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Thomas Hampson
Thomas Hampson sings “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” from Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Excerpt from Mahler: Lieder, a production of Unitel Classica, available on DVD from Deutsche Grammophon
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Excerpt from Mahler's Symphony No. 7 in E Minor ( V. Rondo - Finale)
Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Warner Classics
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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