Name: Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest Karg Nézet-Séguin
Start: 2022-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Elbphilharmonie

Organization

Soprano

Christiane Karg

Voice

Conductor

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Orchestra

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle Hamburg

Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest / Karg / Nézet-Séguin

Hamburg

Germany

Elbphilharmonie

Grosser Saal

Public

Symphony 4

Approved

Song composer Gustav Mahler immortalised himself in his symphonies as well. As in his Fourth Symphony, featuring the beautiful song »Das irdische Leben«. The songs written by his wife Anna are less well-known; Gustav once wrote to her full of delight: »Your music is good!« Tonight Christiane Karg devotes an entire concert evening with her radiant soprano to the works of Gustav and Anna Mahler. She is accompanied by the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest under the baton of Canadian maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the former chief conductor of the orchestra and now its honorary conductor.

The songs selected from the oevure of Alma Mahler all date from the time of her marriage to Gustav and reflect the influence of her teacher (and admirer) Alexander von Zemlinsky. Some of her songs were written circa 1900, the year in which Mahler completed his now extremely popular Fourth Symphony, crowning it with the song »Das irdische Leben«, which dates from 1892. At the Elbphilharmonie, the works of the famous husband and wife are juxtaposed on an equal footing.

English

Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest / Karg / Nézet-Séguin by Mahler, From (2022/2022), Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

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