He's more than a bunch of symphonies and songs. Even those are not what you think. And although the music stopped with his death in 1911—100 years later, his time is now. During four months of concerts, jam sessions, conversation, and film, free your mind about what Mahler really means.
NEC faculty have always enjoyed playing chamber music together, but it was cellist Laurence Lesser—then Conservatory President— who transformed these occasional musical evenings into a stellar, regularly occurring series. This year, the thematic thread woven throughout the programs is "Brahms and Birthdays." Tonight, as part of Mahler Unleashed, NEC students perform selections from Mahler's settings of poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a seminally important source of inspiration for the first four symphonies and numerous vocal works.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Mai Motobuchi, Roger Tapping, viola; Pascale Delache-Feldman, bass
Mahler song settings from the folk poetry collection, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Verlorne Müh
Ich ging mit Lust
Rheinlegendchen
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Scheiden und Meiden
Emily Brand, Soyoung Park, sopranos
Michael Kuhn, tenor
Hernan Berisso, baritone
Christina Chao, Pei-Ying Li, Han-Wen Yu, piano
Brahms Trio in A Minor, Op. 114
Roger Tapping, viola; Natasha Brofsky, cello; Bruce Brubaker, piano
Read Katarina Markovic's note on Des Knaben Wunderhorn and find other Mahler program notes.
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN