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Gustav Mahler

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Gustav Mahler was an Austrian composer and conductor renowned for his symphonic and vocal works. His music, characterized by its emotional depth and intricate orchestration, reflects profound themes of existence and nature. Mahler’s symphonies and song cycles, such as Kindertotenlieder, have made a lasting impact on the classical music landscape, establishing him as a key figure of the late Romantic era.

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This season
In Dresden

Sir Donald with Mahler

Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 19:00
Sir Donald Runnicles (Conductor), Masaya Kamei (Piano), Dresdner Philharmonie
When Beethoven wrote his Fifth and final piano concerto in 1809, Vienna was besieged by Napoleon's troops. The sounds of war and economic uncertainty – his patron Archduke Rudolf had left the city – influenced the creation of the work. Beethoven composed a piano concerto with an exceptionally new form for the time, in which the soloist alternates between heroic and peaceful moments. Despite the difficult circumstances, the work does not reflect fatalism, but rather a solemn struggle for freedom and against oppression. Gustav Mahler's First Symphony also reflects intense personal experiences. His unhappy love for the singer Johanna Richter inspired him to create the "Songs of a Wayfarer," from which he incorporated motifs into the first and third movements of the symphony. In an emotional state of exception, Mahler completed the symphony in just six weeks. The premiere in Budapest in 1889 was met with incomprehension, prompting Mahler to revise the work multiple times. Today, it is among his most frequently performed symphonies.
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This season
In Köln

Mahlers 5. Sinfonie | Beethovens 3. Klavierkonzert

Sun, May 31, 2026, 20:00
Alice Sara Ott (Piano), Konzerthausorchester Berlin (Ensemble), Joana Mallwitz (Conductor)
Joana Mallwitz dirigiert Mahlers berühmte 5. Sinfonie, ein monumentales Werk, in dem der Komponist an die Grenzen sinfonischen Schaffens gegangen ist: Herzklopfen ist angesagt! Zuvor wird die Echopreisträgerin Alice-Sara Ott Beethovens 3. Klavierkonzert interpretieren, das in eher düsterer Schicksalshaftigkeit anhebt, sich zum Ende hin aber nach einem lichten C-Dur wendet.

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Concerts in season 2024/25 or later where works by Gustav Mahler is performed

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Tonight
In Hamburg

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä

Wed, Apr 2, 2025, 20:00
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä (Conductor)
There are few orchestras that can boast as long a Mahler tradition as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam. Even during Gustav Mahler’s lifetime, the orchestra regularly performed his symphonies and helped the composer achieve the fame he enjoys to this day. Klaus Mäkelä, who takes over as the orchestra’s chief conductor in 2027, continues this tradition with a performance of Mahler’s First Symphony. The composer wrote about his work: »It has become so overpowering – it flowed out of me like a mountain stream!« Also on the programme is Arnold Schönberg’s early work »Verklärte Nacht« for string orchestra, based on Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name. Before Schönberg climbed to the top of the avant-garde and shocked the music world with his twelve-tone music, he wrote deeply Romantic pieces in his younger years, in which he endeavoured to unite the styles of Wagner and Brahms.
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Tonight
In Bamberg

Jakub Hrůša, Konstantin Krimmel

Wed, Apr 2, 2025, 20:00
Konzerthalle Bamberg, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal (Bamberg)
Jakub Hrůša (Conductor), Konstantin Krimmel (Bariton)
»Mahler is a must!« That was absolutely clear to Jakub Hrůša when our journey together began in 2016 – as his late Romantic music is »genetically very close« to both him and ourselves. We have already performed five of his symphonies together in recent years. This programme includes the enchanting »Blumine« movement, which Mahler erased from his autobiographical first symphony and described himself as a »blissful infatuation«: he wrote it in 1884 as a young conductor when he had a crush on a soprano. However, his affection was not returned – and a year later, the »Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen« (»Songs of a Travelling Companion«) emerged from his emotional misery. Together with Konstantin Krimmel, we embark on the restless wanderings of the lovesick artist. After that we say: Not only Mahler is a must. For some time now, Jakub Hrůša has also been working more intensively on Bruckner, as he has recognised that only an orchestra that »really loves this music enough« will be able to make it work. He described the phase in which we immersed ourselves in the Symphony No. 4 in the 2018/2019 season as a »blissful experience with Bruckner« – and it was deepened even further: In the 2020 pandemic, we recorded our Chief Conductor’s personal take on all three versions of the work for a phenomenal and award-winning recording. In this programme, the »Romantic« is performed in the 1878/1880 version – first in Bamberg, as is traditional, of course. Then we will once again become »travelling companions« ourselves and present the works in two of the best halls in Europe: in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and (for the 10th time already!) in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie – where we have come to love and appreciate the inspiring acoustics.
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Tomorrow
In Hamburg

Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg

Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 19:30
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg, Charlotte Melkonian (Cello), Emanuel Meshvinski (Director), Emanuel Meshvinski (Moderator)
The Jewish spring festival of Passover is not only a religious festival, but above all a cultural event that celebrates renewal and freedom. In keeping with this, the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg (JCOHH) is opening its new concert series »BÜSCHEN MESCHUGGE« under the motto »Hope. Blossom. A new beginning.«
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In Hamburg

Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg

Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 19:30
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg, Charlotte Melkonian (Cello), Emanuel Meshvinski (Director), Emanuel Meshvinski (Moderator)
The Jewish spring festival of Passover is not only a religious festival, but above all a cultural event that celebrates renewal and freedom. In keeping with this, the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg (JCOHH) is opening its new concert series »BÜSCHEN MESCHUGGE« under the motto »Hope. Blossom. A new beginning.«
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In a few days
In Amsterdam

On Tour: Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 20:15
Jakub Hrůša (Conductor), Konstantin Krimmel (Bariton)
»Mahler is a must!« That was absolutely clear to Jakub Hrůša when our journey together began in 2016 – as his late Romantic music is »genetically very close« to both him and ourselves. We have already performed five of his symphonies together in recent years. This programme includes the enchanting »Blumine« movement, which Mahler erased from his autobiographical first symphony and described himself as a »blissful infatuation«: he wrote it in 1884 as a young conductor when he had a crush on a soprano. However, his affection was not returned – and a year later, the »Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen« (»Songs of a Travelling Companion«) emerged from his emotional misery. Together with Konstantin Krimmel, we embark on the restless wanderings of the lovesick artist. After that we say: Not only Mahler is a must. For some time now, Jakub Hrůša has also been working more intensively on Bruckner, as he has recognised that only an orchestra that »really loves this music enough« will be able to make it work. He described the phase in which we immersed ourselves in the Symphony No. 4 in the 2018/2019 season as a »blissful experience with Bruckner« – and it was deepened even further: In the 2020 pandemic, we recorded our Chief Conductor’s personal take on all three versions of the work for a phenomenal and award-winning recording. In this programme, the »Romantic« is performed in the 1878/1880 version – first in Bamberg, as is traditional, of course. Then we will once again become »travelling companions« ourselves and present the works in two of the best halls in Europe: in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and (for the 10th time already!) in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie – where we have come to love and appreciate the inspiring acoustics.
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This week
In Dresden

Mahler's Unfinished

Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 19:30
Vasily Petrenko (Conductor), Dresdner Philharmonie
For many, thirteen is an unlucky number. But for composers, it is rather the number ten, because starting with Beethoven, many were able to complete a ninth symphony, but died before finishing their tenth or didn't dare to begin it at all. Like Mahler, who sketched his Tenth Symphony but had to leave it unfinished. However, even though he did not complete it, the sorrow, pain, and deeply felt anguish in this music remains one of the most moving pieces one can hear in a concert. On the other hand, Shostakovich composed fifteen symphonies, but his Fourth was not heard for decades. The blame lay with Stalin, who put so much pressure on the composer that he withdrew his work. The communist regime found the drastic way in which the composer expressed the horrors of the terror regime to be too dangerous.
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This week
In Hamburg

On Tour: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 20:00
Jakub Hrůša (Conductor), Konstantin Krimmel (Bariton)
»Mahler is a must!« That was absolutely clear to Jakub Hrůša when our journey together began in 2016 – as his late Romantic music is »genetically very close« to both him and ourselves. We have already performed five of his symphonies together in recent years. This programme includes the enchanting »Blumine« movement, which Mahler erased from his autobiographical first symphony and described himself as a »blissful infatuation«: he wrote it in 1884 as a young conductor when he had a crush on a soprano. However, his affection was not returned – and a year later, the »Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen« (»Songs of a Travelling Companion«) emerged from his emotional misery. Together with Konstantin Krimmel, we embark on the restless wanderings of the lovesick artist. After that we say: Not only Mahler is a must. For some time now, Jakub Hrůša has also been working more intensively on Bruckner, as he has recognised that only an orchestra that »really loves this music enough« will be able to make it work. He described the phase in which we immersed ourselves in the Symphony No. 4 in the 2018/2019 season as a »blissful experience with Bruckner« – and it was deepened even further: In the 2020 pandemic, we recorded our Chief Conductor’s personal take on all three versions of the work for a phenomenal and award-winning recording. In this programme, the »Romantic« is performed in the 1878/1880 version – first in Bamberg, as is traditional, of course. Then we will once again become »travelling companions« ourselves and present the works in two of the best halls in Europe: in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and (for the 10th time already!) in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie – where we have come to love and appreciate the inspiring acoustics.
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Next week
In Heidelberg

Musikpreis der deutschen Wirtschaft Ensemble Resonanz Finalkonzert

Sun, Apr 6, 2025, 11:30
Tabea Wink (Blockflöte), Clarissa Bevilacqua (Violin), Jonas Müller (Bariton)
Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft has promoted young, emerging talents in classical music. The music prize, with a value of €15,000, aims to provide support at the beginning of a music career. It is intended for outstanding instrumentalists and singers under 30 who live in German-speaking countries. In addition to the prize money, the award includes performance opportunities at renowned partner festivals. The finalists will perform at a concert with Ensemble Resonanz, accompanied by conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer.
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Next week
In Dresden

Mahler's Unfinished

Sun, Apr 6, 2025, 18:00
Vasily Petrenko (Conductor), Dresdner Philharmonie
For many, thirteen is an unlucky number. But for composers, it is rather the number ten, because starting with Beethoven, many were able to complete a ninth symphony, but died before finishing their tenth or didn't dare to begin it at all. Like Mahler, who sketched his Tenth Symphony but had to leave it unfinished. However, even though he did not complete it, the sorrow, pain, and deeply felt anguish in this music remains one of the most moving pieces one can hear in a concert. On the other hand, Shostakovich composed fifteen symphonies, but his Fourth was not heard for decades. The blame lay with Stalin, who put so much pressure on the composer that he withdrew his work. The communist regime found the drastic way in which the composer expressed the horrors of the terror regime to be too dangerous.
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Next week
In Amsterdam

Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 2

Mon, Apr 7, 2025, 20:15
Het Orkest, Groot Concertkoor Amsterdam, Jacob Slagter (Conductor), Aylin Sezer (Soprano), Sophia Patsi (Alto)
The Concertgebouw’s famous Main Hall is one of the best concert halls in the world, well-known for its exceptional acoustics and special atmosphere. In the Main Hall, you will feel history. Here, Gustav Mahler conducted his own compositions, as did Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky. Sergei Rachmaninoff played his own piano concertos in the Main Hall. This is also where musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Yehudi Menuhin gave legendary performances. Right up to now, the Main Hall offers a stage to the world’s best orchestras and musicians. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Main Hall for yourself!
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Next week
In Hamburg

Utopia / Alexandre Kantorow / Teodor Currentzis

Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 20:00
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Utopia, Regula Mühlemann (Soprano), Alexandre Kantorow (Piano), Teodor Currentzis (Conductor)
Few conductors of our time exude such charisma on stage as Teodor Currentzis. The Greek-Russian conductor lives and breathes music with every fibre of his sometimes eccentrically dressed body, regularly spurring his musicians on to outstanding performances. After his Russian-based ensemble MusicAeterna, Currentzis founded the project orchestra »Utopia« in 2022, made up of more than 100 musicians from 30 nations who otherwise play in European orchestras. An international all-star team, brought together by Currentzis himself and moulded into a musical unit. Even at the first performance at Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, the cheers from the audience knew no bounds – »a little moment of magic«, NDR enthused. Now the ensemble returns to Hamburg for the third time, accompanied by French shooting-star pianist Alexandre Kantorow.
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Next week
In Katowice

NOSPR / Zagrosek / Mahler’s happiest symphony

Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 19:30
Lothar Zagrosek (Conductor), NOSPR, Olga Bezsmertna (Soprano)
The most joyous one among Gustav Mahler’s symphonies does not, by any means, renounce either the grotesque irony that is so typical for the composer or eschatological threads. Yet again, it deals with the subject of death. This time, however, it is first represented by the grotesque Ländler played by the violin in the scherzo, later to introduce us to the realm of paradise in the finale. But is this true paradise, or rather an image, ironical in its effect, that arises from the naive folk poetry of The Boy’s Magic Horn collection, which the composer uses in his symphonies for the last time?Jakub PuchalskiConcert duration: approximately 70 minutes
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This month
In Warszawa

29th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival

Mon, Apr 14, 2025, 19:30
Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Chór Filharmonii Śląskiej, Yaroslav Shemet (Conductor), Sofia Soloviy (Soprano), Anna Bernacka (Mezzo-Soprano)
29th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival - Beethoven and great poetry 6-18 April 2025 More information: www.beethoven.org.pl Organiser: Ludwig van Beethoven Association General Director of the Festival: Elżbieta Penderecka The Festival, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Warsaw, is held under the honorary patronage of President Andrzej Duda.
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This month
In Warszawa

29th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival

Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 19:30
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Leonard Slatkin (Conductor), Jennifer Johnston (Mezzo-Soprano), Samuel Hasselhorn (Bariton)
29th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival - Beethoven and great poetry 6-18 April 2025 More information: www.beethoven.org.pl Organiser: Ludwig van Beethoven Association General Director of the Festival: Elżbieta Penderecka The Festival, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Warsaw, is held under the honorary patronage of President Andrzej Duda.
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This month
In London

Mahler 8

Sat, Apr 26, 2025, 19:30
Edward Gardner (Conductor), Sarah Wegener (Soprano), Emma Bell (Soprano), Jennifer France (Soprano), Christine Rice (Mezzo-Soprano), Jennifer Johnston (Mezzo-Soprano), Andrew Staples (Tenor), Tomasz Konieczny (Bass-Bariton), Derek Welton (Bass-Bariton), London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Tiffin Boys' Choir
Three choirs, eight starry singers and one of the largest orchestras ever put on stage: there’s a reason why Mahler’s Eighth is often called the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. The form of the piece, setting the candescent medieval poem Veni Creator Spiritus alongside the lyrical last scene of Goethe’s Faust is in itself radical and mysterious.At the core of the piece is a vast choir who seem to represent the whole human race in a passionate prayer for change but Mahler imagined they stood for something even greater: ‘Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound,’ he challenged.‘There are no longer human voices, but planets and suns revolving.’ Exaggeration? Judge for yourself. Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is quite simply one of the most overwhelming experiences that music has to offer.This concert has been specially developed with the Southbank Centre, with further details to be announced. It is commissioned and produced by the Southbank Centre and London Philharmonic Orchestra
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This month
In Hamburg

Symphoniker Hamburg / Han-Na Chang

Sun, Apr 27, 2025, 19:00
Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Symphoniker Hamburg, Han-Na Chang (Conductor)
Mozart's "little" G minor symphony, written at age 17, gained fame through Miloš Forman's 1984 film "Amadeus." Mozart valued it enough to request the score ten years later. Completed on October 5, 1773, after his third Italian trip, it's his first minor key symphony, inspired by Haydn's 39th symphony. Mahler's Fifth Symphony quotes Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio." Mahler struggled with the Fifth, revising it multiple times. The famous Adagietto, a love letter to his wife Alma, shouldn't be played too slowly.
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Next month
In Berlin

FLEUR BARRON & KUNAL LAHIRY

Sat, May 3, 2025, 19:00
Barron Fleur (Mezzo-Soprano), Lahiry Kunal (Piano)
In an extraordinary and highly personal program, mezzo­soprano Fleur Barron and pianist Kunal Lahiry explore the echoes of global colonial history in music and poetry. Artists who share dual Asian and Western heritages, they examine diverse perspectives of identity and belonging, repression and freedom, in both familiar and lesser­known works from the past 150 years.
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Next month
In Amsterdam

Scherpdenkers: Damiaan Denys & Camerata RCO - Mahler & Freud (Dutch spoken)

Tue, May 6, 2025, 20:15
Damiaan Denys (Speaker), Camerata RCO, Elise Besemer (Violin), Coraline Groen (Violin), Vilém Kijonka (Viola), Maartje-Maria den Herder (Cello), Georgina Poad (Double bass), Hein Wiedijk (Clarinet), Fons Verspaandonk (French horn), Ramon van Engelenhoven (Piano), Anneleen Schuitemaker (Harp)
For lovers of chamber music the Recital Hall is the venue of choice. You can hear the musicians breathe and you can practically touch them. This hall is also cherished by musicians for its beautiful acoustics and direct contact with the audience. In the Recital Hall you can hear the best musicians of our time. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Recital Hall for yourself!
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Next month
In Hamburg

Camilla Nylund / Helmut Deutsch / Song Recital

Wed, May 7, 2025, 19:30
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Camilla Nylund (Soprano), Helmut Deutsch (Piano)
Camilla Nylund’s dramatic soprano has all it takes for the grand operas by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. But the Finn, who was recently hailed at the Elbphilharmonie for her »American Songbook« project, can also sing a couple of smaller numbers. This is particularly exciting when, with Helmut Deutsch, one of the most sought-after accompanists of all is at the piano. Alban Berg’s »Sieben frühe Lieder« (Seven Early Songs) are real gems and sound romantic in their own particular way – and tremendously sensitive. You can hear a lot of Gustav Mahler here! Especially as a composition pupil of Arnold Schönberg, the very young composer also makes forays to the limits of tonality here, however. Once older, he stubbornly held back many of his songs, but chose to release these seven. Obviously, he was particularly fond of them. With their warm, scintillating tenderness, which intensifies to a frenzy, they open up completely new horizons. There is perhaps no help for anyone who does not get goosebumps when the roses burst open in Theodor Storm’s »Nachtigall« (Nightingale)…
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Next month
In Hamburg

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Joshua Bell / Daniel Harding

Wed, May 7, 2025, 20:00
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Joshua Bell (Violin), Daniel Harding (Conductor)
»I’m in love with Dvořák’s Violin Concerto and I don’t see that changing in the foreseeable future.« With this declaration of love, star violinist Joshua Bell takes the wind out of the sails of all those who think you only need to know the Bohemian composer’s – undeniably wonderful – Cello Concerto. In fact, the Violin Concerto offers everything you could wish for in a great evening at the Elbphilharmonie: melting melodies, highly virtuosic splendour, rousing dances. The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia accompanies this enchanting work with Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony – a gathering of classical music masters!