Fri, May 16 Mahler Festival: Concertgebouworkest and Klaus Mäkelä - Mahler's Symphony No. 8
Time
Location
Main Hall
Price
from €65.00
Main Hall
from €65.00
Future chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä is already conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and tonight they’ll perform Mahler’s monumental Eighth Symphony together, joined by no less than four choirs.
Het Concertgebouw Eigen Programmering
Orchestra, Vocal Music
Klaus Mäkelä has been artistic partner of the Concertgebouw Orchestra since 2022 and will become chief conductor in 2027. Earlier in this festival, he already conducted the First Symphony, today the Eighth. The Concertgebouw Orchestra shares the stage with no fewer than four vocal ensembles: the National Radio Choir, Laurens Symphonic, the Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris and the National Children's Choir.
Mahler wrote to his friend Willem Mengelberg that his Eighth Symphony was his greatest work ever. 'All the other symphonies were anticipating this.' Moreover, he experienced it as if the piece of music was dictated to him in a vision. In two monumental movements, Mahler says he sings of the entire universe. 'There are no longer human voices sounding. They are planets and suns, revolving in their orbits.' Practically speaking, it is also a rather voluminous work. Mahler did often need very many performers, and in this Mahler's 'symphony of a thousand', there are close to four hundred. Or more: in 1912, Mengelberg conducted a version with two thousand musicians and singers.
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Standard | €235.00 | €215.00 | €179.00 | €159.00 | €109.00 | €79.00 | €65.00 |
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major 'Symphonie der Tausend'
Before this concert, enjoy the Mahler Festival Dinner at restaurant LIER. A three-course surprise menu including wine, table water and coffee or tea for €75 per person. More information and reservations