Symphonic Concert
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Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
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Duration: about
1h20
Program
Gustav Mahler
Symphonie n° 2 "Résurrection"
Distribution
Orchestre de Paris
Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris
Semyon Bychkov, conducting
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, soprano
Christa Mayer, mezzo-soprano
With Mahler specialist Semyon Bychkov returning to the podium of the Orchestre de Paris, which he directed from 1989 to 1998, Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony unfolds its meditation on mortality and hope for life after death.
Symphony No.2, ‘Resurrection’, is a vast eschatological poem demonstrating Mahler’s incredible ability to project his metaphysical angst into dramatic musical edifices. The initial movement, a reuse of a previous Totenfeier (‘funeral ceremony’), lays out the underlying theme: the human condition, no less, with its terrible mortality and the derisory feeling of life. With the sudden entrance of the Dies Irae, this tumultuous, sinister movement gives way to a happy Andante, in the rustic spirit of a ländler. But the tumult returns in the form of a diabolical rondo, for which Mahler uses the ironic, grating version of a lied from the Knaben Wunderhorn telling of Saint Anthony of Padua preaching to the fish. With the entrance of the soloists and the choir, the imposing shadow of Beethoven burst in, preceded by Urlicht, a poignant vocal appeal to ‘primal light'.
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
See the venueGetting here
Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B
Address
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris
To leave after this concert
taxi G7