Wiener Salon - Kammermusik von Alma Mahler und Zeitgenossinnen

Mahler Festival: Song recital Alma Mahler and friends

For four days, the Recital Hall is dedicated to Mahler's most beautiful songs. A special recital is dedicated to his wife Alma, combining pieces by her with those by friends. Perhaps today's most important Lieder accompanist, pianist Julius Drake, flanks his favourite vocalists during all these concerts. Today you will hear French soprano Axelle Fanyo, a 'true storyteller' according to Forum Opéra. She shares the stage with one of the greatest Dutch talents, baritone Raoul Steffani.Austrian Alma Maria Schindler was introduced to her future husband, Gustav Mahler, by her composition teacher Zemlinsky. Under Mahler's name, she would become known - but never primarily as a composer. Mahler did not want his wife to write any more music, and Alma herself also had doubts about her work. Although most of it has been lost, her late-romantic, often melancholic songs are still widely performed. Here today in the Recital Hall, they alternate with pieces by friends and acquaintances. Axelle Fanyo and Raoul Steffani perform songs by Ernst Krenek, Mahler's son-in-law. You will also hear works by Berg, Korngold and Stravinsky.

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian dirigiert Werke von Tschaikowsky, Alma Mahler und Saint-Saëns

Mittagskonzert: Emmanuel Tjeknavorian dirigiert Alma Mahler und Tschaikowsky

Mahler Festival: Mahler's moving Das Lied von der Erde

The Recital Hall is dedicated to Mahler's most beautiful songs during the Mahler Festival. Perhaps the most important song accompanist of the moment, pianist Julius Drake, flanks his favourite vocalists. Today, these are Feride Büyükdenktaş and Stuart Jackson. Together they sing the moving Das Lied von der Erde, in Mahler's own version for two vocalists and piano.Six narrative movements make up Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. He based the songs on texts about nature, death and life. He used ancient Chinese texts in German translation. A 'drinking song on the earthly vale of tears' is the start of a stirring series of reflections on farewell and new beginnings. Das Lied von der Erde was written for two voices. Today you will hear Feride Büyükdenktaş, a Turkish mezzo-soprano who has already shone on the major opera stages of Vienna, Stuttgard and Istanbul. British tenor Stuart Jackson gets jubilant reviews at home, and is now more and more often singing across the globe.

Kammermusik des Konzerthausorchesters

It was Johannes Brahms who first honoured the youngest member of the woodwind section as „Fräulein Klarinette“, for whom he wrote wonderful chamber music late in life. However, Franz Schubert and Louis Spohr had already tapped into the clarinet's feminine side before that, writing intimate duets for it and the soprano, to which only the piano, which was obligatory in the bourgeois salon, was allowed to join in with the harmony. Our principal clarinettist Ralf Forster invites you into the Kleine Saal to indulge in the intimate house music atmosphere of a Schubertiade just before Christmas that reaches far beyond the composer's time.

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

For Gustav Mahler, escaping the world often meant living only for love and art. Sometimes, however, his otherworldly sounds also gently speak of death. The traditional Staatskapelle Berlin under Susanna Mälkki now dedicates itself to them. In the "Song of the Earth", joy in life and farewell to life find a colorful expression. Mälkki prefaces Mahler's moving late work with Kaija Saariaho's trumpet concerto "Hush", her poignant farewell to the world. Verneri Pohjola now interprets it.

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Kammerkonzert: Werke von Smetana, Busoni, Liszt und Reinecke

Kammerkonzert: Werke von Smetana, Busoni, Liszt und Reinecke

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