Munich Philharmonic / Daniel Harding
Sibelius: Tapiola / Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Major works
Daniel Harding is by no means a stranger to the Munich Philharmonic. The British conductor regularly works with the venerable orchestra, which celebrated its 130th anniversary at the beginning of the season. An eventful time full of musical highlights: there is surely no other orchestra that performs the great repertoire as magnificently and colourfully as the Philharmonic from the Bavarian capital.
Take Gustav Mahler’s phenomenal Symphony No. 5, for example. When it was premiered in 1904, the large-scale work, with its five expansive movements, broke through the boundaries of what had previously been considered possible. Surrounded by an infernal orchestral frenzy, the fourth movement alone provides some sense of relaxation. After it was featured in Visconti’s film »Death in Venice«, this enchanting adagietto became Mahler’s most popular creation.
With his 1926 symphonic poem »Tapiola«, a musical invocation of the Finnish forest god Tapio, Jean Sibelius composed his last great orchestral work.
Performers
Münchner Philharmoniker
conductor Daniel Harding
Programme
Jean Sibelius
Tapiola / tone poem for large orchestra, Op. 112
– Interval –
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
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