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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Jaap van Zweden

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Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden

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Symphony Center Chicago

Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden: Symphony No. 6 in A minor, ("Tragic") Mahler

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Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic"

Gregorio Chávez Coutiño

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Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden: Jaap van Zweden Conductor

Overview
The CSO brings the soaring emotional peaks and valleys of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to Chicago audiences before performing it on Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw stage. The “hammer blows of fate” in the finale seem to foreshadow the tragedies in Mahler’s life, including his own fatal illness. But the symphony brims with life’s pleasures, too, from memories of mountain pastures (listen for the cowbells) to a rapturous portrait of the composer’s wife, Alma.

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Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden by Mahler, From (2025/2025), Conductor Jaap van Zweden, Symphony Center Chicago, Chicago, United States

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