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Two late works can be heard in this concert, beginning with the expressive Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony. Painful melancholy prevails here, as it does in Das Lied von der Erde (Songs of the Earth), which looks back on the lost beauty of life. Formally located between a song cycle and a symphony, this work was, according to Mahler, “probably the most personal thing I have done so far”.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sakari Oramo conductor (replacing Daniel Barenboim)
Dorottya Láng mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Bruns tenor
Programme
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 10: 1st Movement Adagio (performing version by Deryck Cooke)
Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Dorottya Láng mezzo-soprano, Benjamin Bruns tenor
Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Mahler’s music now features so regularly in the programmes of the Berliner Philharmoniker that it is all too easy to forget that this has not always been the case. True, Mahler himself conducted the orchestra on a handful of occasions but audiences in Berlin could initially make no sense of his musical world. Despite this there were conductors who even at this early date were keen to promote his works, which they did with both passion and persistence. It was they and their successors who laid the foundations for the orchestra’s Mahler tradition, a tradition that continues to leave its mark on the players today.