All-Star Orchestra

Mahler: Love, Sorrow and Transcendence (1x8)

Fecha de emisión: Sept 06, 2013

Gustav Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (Songs from Latter Days) | Gustav Mahler: "Totenfeier" ("Funeral Rites" – 1st Mvt. from Symphony No. 2) | Augusta Read Thomas: Of Paradise and Light | Bernard Rands: Adieu Mahler's turbulent loves are expressed through his music. His settings of poems by Friedrich Rückert explore themes of love, nature, and otherworldliness. Mahler was haunted throughout his life by the premonition of his own death. The first movement of his 2nd Symphony draws stark contrasts between the composer's premonition of doom and his vision of life. Modern parallels can be found in "Adieu" by Bernard Rands and "Of Paradise and Light" by his wife, composer Augusta Read Thomas.