Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano

Mahler: Third Symphony – Hamburg International Music Festival

This concert has already taken place! 19.80 | 51.70 | 69.30 | 88 | 107.80
This concert has already taken place! 19.80 | 51.70 | 69.30 | 88 | 107.80
Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano © Claudia Höhne
Gerhild Romberger
Gerhild Romberger © Rosa Frank
  • Doors open 19:00

  • Start 20:00

  • End ca. 21:45

Description

»To me, however, a symphony means: building a world by all available means which technique offers« – after his symphonies »Titan« and »Resurrection«, Gustav Mahler relinquished none of his ambitious compositional style for his Third Symphony: its six movements, each with its own symbolic title, its narrative quality and richness of musical ideas and aesthetic approaches are just some of the surprising elements of Mahler’s Third, one of the largest symphonies ever written. This also illustrates the holistic view Mahler, kapellmeister of Hamburg’s Municipal Theatre at the time, took of the symphony as a genre as well as the world as a whole.

Performers

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Damen des Staatschor Latvija

Hamburger Knabenchor

Gerhild Romberger alto

conductor Kent Nagano

Programme

Gustav Mahler
Sinfonie Nr. 3 d-Moll für Alt, Knabenchor, Frauenchor und Orchester

Festival

Hamburg International Music Festival

Promoter: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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