Tugan Sokhiev conducts Mahler’s First
Date & Time
Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 20:00It is his first major work, and yet it is a mature musical statement. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 contains everything that would characterise the composer’s later style: emotional outbursts, sudden yawning chasms, folkloric melodies, the sounds of nature, grotesque alienations. Conductor Tugan Sokhiev places this work alongside Lili Boulanger’s impressionistic, shimmering D’un matin de printemps and a newly-composed viola concerto by South Korean composer Donghoon Shin – also an admirer of Mahler. The solo part of the world premiere... Read full text
Keywords: Contemporary, Symphony Concert
Musicians
Berliner Philharmoniker | Orchestra |
Tugan Sokhiev | Conductor |
Amihai Grosz | Viola |
Program
D’un matin de printemps | Lili Boulanger |
Threadsuns for viola and orchestra, commissioned by the Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra (premiere) | Donghoon Shin |
Symphony No. 1 in D major | Gustav Mahler |