Gustav & Alma Mahler: The Tenth

October 1, 2018

7:30PM

Argento New Music Project
Virgil Hartinger, tenor | Sharon Harms, soprano

Argento (“live-wire splendor”, the New York Times) leads this exploration of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony and the composer’s relationship with Alma Mahler that inspired the work. Hear new arrangements of movements from Mahler’s Tenth and Das Lied von der Erde by composer-conductor Michel Galante, under-appreciated songs by Alma Mahler, and new music inspired by both Gustav and Alma Mahler’s work from composers Patricia Alessandrini, Jesse Jones, and Taylor Brook.

Co-produced with the Austrian Cultural Forum as part of the Moving Sounds festival.

Program

Gustav Mahler — "Trinklied" from Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Michel Galante)

Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 10: Adagio and Scherzo/Finale (arr. Michel Galante)

Alma Mahler — Two songs for soprano and piano

Patricia Alessandrini — hommage à Alma Mahler *preview performance

Jesse Jones — Threshold

Taylor Brook — Arrhythmia (expanded version)          

Watch & Listen

Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)

Argento performs “in vain” by Georg Friedrich Haas

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