B5: Mahler S Bernardou Fink by Mahler, Thu 23 May 2019, From (2019/2019), Conductor Heiko Mathias Förster, Dům kultury města Ostravy (Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava), Ostrava, Czech Republic

The season ends with the Chief Conductor Concert, where will be presented Symphony by Mahler, which is the largest in range and the most complicated in programme and form, yet the most accessible in the purely musical aspect. Although it uses solo and choir singing, it is a purely orchestral colossus in its core. The authors of the texts set to music are both folk poets and Friedrich Nietzsche. Mahler wanted to extend the standard symphonic plan of four movements to seven movements, eventually, he was content with six movements. He was alternately introducing, changing, and denying this poetic-philosophical pantheistic programme, and the result of this constant creative uncertainty is the tremendous respect to earthly life, the beauty of nature, the transience of man and the eternal power of love.