Junge Konzerte | Titan
Titan
Susanna Mälkki | Conductor
Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 1 in D major ("Titan")
So, that's it. Symphony in the classical sense? That's over now. With Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1, music begins to speak in quotation marks or in stark images. What does that mean? You have to hear it! Or is it normal for coarse brass band sounds to blare in and a double bass to nasalize "Brother Jacob"?
With this first symphony, so powerful in sound, one doesn't know where to listen first. The unpleasant whistling at the beginning, which is supposed to sound "like a sound of nature," i.e., like before the invention of music? Or the false cuckoo calls of the clarinet, a fourth instead of the naturalistic cuckoo third? The blaring fanfares, the unnaturally high-pitched double bass, which is supposed to be played "with parody"? Yes, it remains true: there is no symphony that so definitively buries an era and cleanses the ears like Mahler's "First." In keeping with the motto "Roll over Beethoven," he draws a thick line under the symphonic tradition of the 19th century with this work.
For teachers, lesson materials for the preparation and follow-up of concert visits will be provided through the network "Music and School" for each concert. Further information can be found at hr-sinfonieorchester.de/education/netzwerk
An event of the hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Project partner: Stiftung Giersch
Concert duration: about 100 minutes – without a break!
For young people aged 14 and over. Adult tickets are only available when accompanied by a young person on a 1:1 basis.
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So, that's it. Symphony in the classical sense? That's over now. With Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1, music begins to speak in quotation marks or in stark images. What does that mean? You have to hear it! Or is it normal for coarse brass band sounds to blare in and a double bass to nasalize "Brother Jacob"?
With this first symphony, so powerful in sound, one doesn't know where to listen first. The unpleasant whistling at the beginning, which is supposed to sound "like a sound of nature," i.e., like before the invention of music? Or the false cuckoo calls of the clarinet, a fourth instead of the naturalistic cuckoo third? The blaring fanfares, the unnaturally high-pitched double bass, which is supposed to be played "with parody"? Yes, it remains true: there is no symphony that so definitively buries an era and cleanses the ears like Mahler's "First." In keeping with the motto "Roll over Beethoven," he draws a thick line under the symphonic tradition of the 19th century with this work.
Concert duration: about 100 minutes – without a break!
For young people aged 14 and over. Adult tickets are only available when accompanied by a young person on a 1:1 basis.
House opening: 6:00 PM After the concert begins, there is no claim to entrance to the hall.
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