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. The orchestral version, conducted by Lionel Bringuier, unfolds with expressive richness the full depth of these emotions, here enhanced by the warm, amber timbre of Stéphanie d’Oustrac.
Programme
BERLIOZ, Les nuits d’été
MAHLER, Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
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