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The Death and the Maiden – Documentary – Mahler Festival Online

In the year 1901 Mahler first faces death and then meets the love of his life, Alma Schindler. In his Fifth Symphony the metaphysical questions suddenly become highly personal. A story told by Mahler scholars Anna Stoll Knecht and Morten Solvik, conductors Susanna Mälkki and Kahchun Wong, baritone Thomas Hampson and granddaughter Marina Mahler. This […]

Het Concertgebouw

12 mei 2020

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Kindertotenlieder by Fleur Barron and Julius Drake

Today at 17:00 we stream Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder by mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and pianist Julius Drake. This concert took place on March 10, 2020 during an event of Het Concertgebouw Fonds. This video is part of Mahler Festival Online. Tonight at 20:30 you can enjoy Symphony No. 5, played by the Concertgebouworkest and conducted by Daniele […]

Het Concertgebouw

12 mei 2020

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A Child in Heaven – Documentary – Mahler Festival Online

The Fourth Symphony is the last of Mahler’s four so called Wunderhorn symphonies. Mahler’s most light hearted symphony begins with the ringing of sleighbells and takes his hero and us on a journey to heaven. Conductor Iván Fischer: ‘Mahler is not interested in a sensuous love, but in a divine love’. A story told by […]

Het Concertgebouw

11 mei 2020

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Composing the Universe – Documentary – Mahler Festival Online

The Third Symphony is Mahler’s longest piece and even the longest symphony in the standard repertoire. Mahler becomes ‘an instrument upon which the universe plays’. He listens to the flowers, the trees, the animals, mankind, the angels and finally he listens to ‘what love tells me’. A story told by Mahler scholar Morten Solvik, conductors […]

Het Concertgebouw

10 mei 2020

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A conversation with Martha Nussbaum

Prof. Dr. Martha C. Nussbaum highlights the importance of music in education and democracy and the vital function of philanthropy within it. This conversation with Twan Huys took place on March 10, 2020 during an event of Het Concertgebouw Fonds in which Martha talked about the role of music in her personal life. This video […]

Het Concertgebouw

10 mei 2020

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Death and Ressurection – Documentary – Mahler Festival Online

Mahler’s Second Symphony is a call to a new life, a different life. A better life, that has nothing to do with this earthly life. The composer asks himself – and us – the question: ‘Why do we live, why do we die?’ He rehearses the last judgement and rewrites the ending. Mahler scholar Morten […]

Het Concertgebouw

9 mei 2020