Sun, May 18 Mahler Festival: Concertgebouworkest and Klaus Mäkelä - Mahler's Symphony No. 8
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Main Hall
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Mahler Festival: Concertgebouworkest and Klaus Mäkelä - Mahler's Symphony No. 8
Mahler Festival: Concertgebouworkest and Klaus Mäkelä - Mahler's Symphony No. 8
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.
Organizer
Het Concertgebouw Eigen Programmering
Genre
Orchestra, Vocal Music
Part of a serie
Mahler Festival 2025 - Main Hall Passe-partout
Concertgebouw Orchestra and four choirs
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's Symphony No. 8
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.
Event information and tickets
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| Category Gold | Category 1+ | Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | Category 5 | ||
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Standard | €235.00 | €215.00 | €179.00 | €159.00 | €109.00 | €79.00 | €65.00 |
- Drinks are included in the price of admission. When the price category 'Online sprint under 30' is available, you can order 1 ticket 4 hours before the start of a concert.
- Prices do not include transaction fee: € 4,50 per order.
Program
Musicians
- Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Groot Omroepkoor
- Laurens Symfonisch
- Le Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris
- Nationaal Kinderkoor
- Klaus Mäkelä conductor
- Hailey Clark soprano
- Golda Schultz soprano
- Miriam Kutrowatz soprano
- Jennifer Johnston alto
- Okka von der Damerau alto
- Giorgio Berrugi tenor
- Michael Nagy baritone
- Tareq Nazmi bass
Works
Mahler
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major 'Symphonie der Tausend'
The music fragments are from another concert. Visitors will hear a different performance in the concert to be ordered.
- This concert has no intermission
