Name: Klaus Mäkelä Conducts Mahler In Essen
Start: 2024-09-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Philharmonie

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Concertgebouworkest

Theater und Philharmonie Essen

Conductor

Klaus Mäkelä

Orchestra

Klaus Mäkelä Conducts Mahler In Essen

Essen

Germany

Philharmonie

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Concert

Verklärte Nacht op. 4

Symphony No. 1

Jnanakumar P

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A Mahler symphony performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra and its artistic partner Klaus Mäkelä is a downright sensation. When Gustav Mahler came to Amsterdam to conduct the Dutch premiere of his First Symphony in 1903, a close collaboration started – so began the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s much-vaunted Mahler tradition. Klaus Mäkelä steps into that tradition with respect and self-confidence. He previously gave stunning interpretations of the Sixth and the Third, now it is time for the First, which he calls Mahler's 'pastoral’ symphony: ‘I’ve always been attracted to its imaginative beauty, and its freshness. The expression is extremely clear, and it contains all the elements of his later work.’

Klaus Mäkelä opens the concert with Verklärte Nacht by Mahler's contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, who was born 150 years ago in Vienna. The late-romantic work is based on a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who confesses to her lover that she is carrying someone else’s child. The music closely follows the conversation and draws the listener into an intimate emotional journey leading from fear and guilt to pure happiness.

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Ensemble