New Year’s Concert: Mahler “Titan”

A youthful work in which evocations of nature, popular fanfares, a funeral march on the nursery tune Frère Jacques, and klezmer-inspired themes coexist, Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony (1888) already reveals the composer’s extraordinary ambition: to contain, within the symphonic form, the diversity and vastness of the world. With Les nuits d’été, a cycle of six poems by Théophile Gautier originally composed for voice and piano, Hector Berlioz lays the foundations of a new melodic world, freed from the sentimentality of the romance.

Programme

Hector Berlioz

Les nuits d’été

Romantique

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Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 1 “Titan”

Romantisme tardif · Orchestral

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