PROGRAM

* Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 d minor for Alto solo, Women's choir, Boys choir und Orchestra

A whole novel in the form of a jagged march at the start and a slow hymn to love as finale. Between them, two lightweight scherzi and two choral movements with words from Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra and the folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Gustav Mahler’s Third, premiered in 1902, is among the most spectacular and expansive symphonies of them all. Heaven and earth sound within it – and only first-rate singers dare conquer this summit with the Tonkunstler Orchestra: Elisabeth Kulman, the women’s choir of the Wiener Singverein and the Vienna Boys Choir. Yutaka Sado is their sure-footed guide.

Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano, Yutaka Sado conductor, Vienna Singverein, Vienna Boys Choir, Tonkunstler Orchestra