Brussels Philharmonic

Mahler & Clyne

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TOPSTUK MAHLER

orchestral

Birdsong

modified program

Sun 04 Oct 2020 -14.00

start	14.00
expected end time	15.35
With a short introduction by Pieter Bergé in the Concert hall at 02.00 p.m.

All prices include booking fees.

Musical emotions of a great sound poet

The sublime happiness of love, and tragic breathlessness. The Brussels Philharmonic juxtapose both emotions via Gustav Mahler's yearning Adagietto – a declaration of love to his wife Alma – and Das Lied von der Erde. Das Lied’s breathtaking final movement Der Abschied (The Farewell), in which the repeated last word ‘ewig’ (forever) fades almost inaudibly into the silence of eternity, gives even the most dispassionate listener the chills. Sorrow and rapture coming together in a passionate hymn to earthly life and the beauty of existence. Anna Clyne continues this in her elegy for strings, which meditates on love, loss and life. Music full of sorrow and transience which leaves nobody untouched.

programme

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Adagietto from Symphony no.5
Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde

Anna Clyne (1980)
Within her Arms

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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Adagietto from Symphony no.5
Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde

Anna Clyne (1980)

performers

Brussels Philharmonic: orchestra
Stéphane Denève: conductor
Stefanie Irányi: alto

Review

Artsfile

"The playing was full of grandeur and lyricism, with crystalline counterpoint from the strings and rich, glowing colour from the brass and woodwinds."