James Gaffigan

Date & Time

Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 19:00

Venue

“My Fifth Symphony is an accursed creation. No one understands it.” Only after Mahler’s death did the initial incomprehension change to admiration for this forward-looking piece. Yearning for death and affirmation of life, Weltschmerz and fulfilment, sorrow and joy: all lie side-by-side in this symphony, as so often in Mahler. It opens with a funeral march, its centre is a Ländler followed by a musical declaration of love, and it ends in an apotheosis. James Gaffigan precedes Mahler’s trailblazing sonic... Read full text

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Musicians

James Gaffigan	Conductor
Ramón Ortega Quero	Oboe
Mor Biron	Bassoon
Radoslaw Szulc	Violin
Giorgi Kharadze	Cello
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat Major, Hob.I:105	Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor	Gustav Mahler

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