Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler
Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 on tour in the USA
The Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 on tour in Orlando and New York. Klaus Mäkelä also conducts Transfigured Night by Arnold Schönberg, who was born 150 years ago.
Klaus Mäkelä steps into the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s much-vaunted Mahler tradition with respect and self-confidence.
Concert programme
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Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht, op. 4
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 'Titan'
Performers
About this concert
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 Symphony of the composer who would perform over seventy times at New York’s Carnegie Hall from 1907.
Another American connection: Klaus Mäkelä opens the concert with Transfigured Night by Mahler's contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, who was born 150 years ago in Vienna, and who lived in the United States from 1933 until his death in 1951. The late-romantic Transfigured Night was based on a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who confesses to her loved one 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.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
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 Symphony of the composer who would perform over seventy times at New York’s Carnegie Hall from 1907.
Another American connection: Klaus Mäkelä opens the concert with Transfigured Night by Mahler's contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, who was born 150 years ago in Vienna, and who lived in the United States from 1933 until his death in 1951. The late-romantic Transfigured Night was based on a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who confesses to her loved one 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.