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Jaap van Zweden conducts Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ ①
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- PLACE
- LOTTE Concert Hall
- SCHEDULE
- Thu. 16 January 2025, 20:00
- PERFORMANCE TIME
- About 2 hours 0 minutes
- CONDUCTOR
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Jaap van Zweden
- collaboration
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Choir
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Choir, Seongnam City Chorus
Choir, Goyang Civic Choir
Choir, Paju Civic Choir
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Vocalist
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Soprano, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Mezzo-soprano, Tamara Mumford
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Choir
- PROGRAM
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Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection"
- PRICE
- R 150,000 S 120,000 A 80,000 B 40,000 C 10,000
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Jaap van Zweden conducts Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ ①
Thursday, 16th & Friday, 17th January, 2025 8PM LOTTE Concert Hall
Thursday, 16th & Friday, 17th January, 2025 8PM LOTTE Concert Hall
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Seongnam City Chorus
Goyang Civic Choir
Paju City Choir
Program
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 'Resurrection'
*Programs and performers are subject to change.
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fliessender Bewegung
Urlicht
In Tempo des Scherzo
Total Duration around 80 mins
Total Duration around 80 mins
*Programs and performers are subject to change.
Gustav Mahler(1860-1911), Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’(composed in 1888~1894, revised in 1903)
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection' took the longest to create among his symphonies. Most of his symphonies were written in about two years, whereas the Second Symphony required six years for completion, making it a unique case for Mahler. Also, this symphony, along with his Sixth Symphony, is one of Mahler's most unified works, and is deeply rooted in the German-Austrian tradition.
If his Symphony No. 1, 'Titan' projects the first-person perspective of a young composer, Symphony No. 2 is a masterpiece that expresses the fundamental concern of all mankind. The composer poses three important questions in the first movement: 'Why do we live?' 'Why do we suffer?' 'Is everything but a gigantic joke?' These are questions that everyone asks themselves at least once in their life's journey. In response to these questions, Mahler poses his answers in the finale in the form of a human voice with texts he himself wrote: 'Oh, believe, you were not born in vain!' 'Through your suffering, you will be led to God!' 'Everything is yours that you have desired. Yours, what you have loved, what you have struggled for.'
The introduction of the first movement is like a rendezvous of Wagner's Die Walküre and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Here, Mahler skillfully combined the dramatic and operatic style of Die Walküre with Beethoven's fateful key of C minor. Thanks to the cottage at Steinbach in Salzkammergut region of Austria, where he used for composing the symphony, Mahler was able to smoothly continue writing the second, the third, and the fourth movements. The second movement, which he described as 'a recollection of the past, and a ray of sunshine', is the most comfortable in mood in the whole symphony. The third and fourth movements are related to Mahler's own song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn). The third movement is a symphonic scherzo reworking of 'Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish', and the fourth movement 'The Primal Light' is a case where a song was entirely converted into an orchestral movement.
The sudden death of the conductor Hans von Bülow led Mahler to complete this symphony. It is said that Mahler got the inspiration for the finale when Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's religious poem 'Die Auferstehung (Resurrection)' was sung as a chorus at Bülow's funeral service. As Mahler put it, it was the moment of 'divine conception' The fifth movement, which lasts over thirty minutes, is a symphonic cantata that allows one to enjoy the grandeur of Mahler's music for a long time.
Even though critics at the premiere were harsh in their assessment, his Second Symphony was deeply loved by the audience during Mahlers time. It was also the 'Resurrection' Symphony that Mahler conducted at his farewell concert after resigning from his position as director of the Vienna Court Opera in 1907.
Instrumentation
chorus solo SA
4[1/pic3rd.2/pic4th.3/pic1st.4/pic2nd.] 4[1.2.3/eh1st.4/eh2nd.] 5[1.2.3/bcla.4/Ebcl2nd.Ebcl1st.] 4[1.2.3/cbn.4/cbn.] - 10[incl.7th.~10th. horn players on&off-stage] 10[incl. 4tps in 5th.mvt off-stage only] 4 1 - 3timp[incl. tmp in 5th mvt off-stage] - 2hp - organ - str.
Percussion : bd, cym, us cym, 3tri, 3sd, glock, 2 tamtams, 3 bells (indefinite pitch), rute, tmp(additional in 5th.mvt off-stage)
Text by MunKyeong Kim / Translation SukHo Lee
Text by MunKyeong Kim / Translation SukHo Lee
